PRONOUNS

And we’re back! We’re now done with nouns, so let us proceed to pronouns with Ms. Lyca. Pronouns are words that take the place of a noun. Through the use of pronouns, we can avoid redundancy.

Ms. Lyca taught us about the cases of pronouns. These are Subjective, Objective and Possessive, just like those of nouns.

Example:

Pronouns used as subjects or predicate nominatives (Subjective):

I, you, he, she, it, we, they, who

 

Pronouns used as objects (objective case):

me, you, him, her, it, us, them, whom

 

Ms. Claire also explained the difference and usage of You and I and You and me in a sentence. You and I is used if its function is a subject to the sentence whille You and me is used if it would function as the object in the sentence.

 

 

KINDS OF PRONOUNS 

 

It was discussed by Ms. Nikka. According to her, there are seven kind of pronouns. These are: Indefinite pronouns, Demonstrative, Interrogative, Relative, Intensive, Reflexive and Reciprocal pronouns.

Demonstrative Pronouns

There are five demonstrative pronouns: these, those, this, that, and such. They focus attention on the nouns that are replacing.

Examples: “Such was his understanding.” “Those are totally awesome.”

Indefinite Pronouns

These pronouns do not point to any particular nouns, but refer to things or people in general. Some of them are: few, everyone, all, some, anything, and nobody.

Example: “Everyone is already here.”

Interrogative Pronouns

These pronouns are used to begin a question: who, whom, which, what, whoever, whomever, whichever, and whatever.

Example: “Who will you bring to the party?”

Relative Pronouns

These pronouns are used to connect a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun. These are: who, whom, which, whoever, whomever, whichever, and that.

Example: “The driver who ran the stop sign was careless.”

Intensive Pronouns

These pronouns are used to emphasize a noun or pronoun. These are: myself, himself, herself, themselves, itself, yourself, yourselves, and ourselves.

Example: “He himself is his worst critic.”

Reflexive Pronouns

There is one more type of pronoun, and that is the reflexive pronoun. These are the ones that end in “self” or “selves.” They are object pronouns that we use when the subject and the object are the same noun.

She hung herself.

Reciprocal Pronouns

It is used to refer to a mutual set of people.

For example: They have granted each other’s wishes.