Pronouns

What is a pronoun?

• a person, place, thing, or idea

• a describing word

• an action or state of being

• a word that takes the place of a noun

What type of pronoun in the underlined word?Ms. Rakesh loves to visit her niece on the weekends.

• Interrogative Pronoun

• Personal Pronoun

• Possessive Pronoun

• Indefinite Pronoun

Identify what type of pronoun the underlined word is.

Who is going to Ms. Fritsch's room for Fun Friday?

• Interrogative Pronouns

• Personal Pronouns

• Possessive Pronouns

• Reflective Pronouns

Some examples of REFLECTIVE/INTENSIVE PRONOUNS are:

• This, that, those, these

• He, she, I, me. they

• mine, hers, theirs, his

• Myself, himself, itself, themselves

Some examples of POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS are:

• Myself, itself, herself, themselves

• I, me, he, she, they

• Anything, something, someone, everyone

• Mine, hers, his, theirs

Indefinite pronouns

I got the rearest icecream in the world and kept it in my room but now it is nowhere.

(Indetify the the indefinite pronoun in the sentence)

• Rearest

• Room

• Nowhere

• Icecream

Reflexive pronoun:

We both felt nervous before the interview but kept telling ______ there was nothing to fear.

• Themselves

• Ourselves

• Wereselves

• Thereselves

How could you forget? You _______ told me you would buy the book on your way back.

The matter was serious. The principal wrote a letter _____ to all the parents explaining her views on cheating.

They educated six children. They paid all the expenses by___________