1. PRONOUNS Pronouns: are words that take the place of a noun or another pronoun. Clarification: Most pronouns clearly refer to a specific noun in a preceding sentence or a previous phrase of the same sentence. The word or phrase that the pronoun replaces is known as the antecedent. Personal pronouns in their possessive forms are the most common used pronouns. Indefinite Pronouns: express an amount or refer to an un specified person or thing. EX: Some lingered outside the theater. Nobody heard a word the actor said. Demonstrative Pronouns: point to specific people or things. EX: This is exactly what the audience wants. That was a moving performance.

2. Interrogative Pronouns: begin a question EX: When will the play begin? Who has the lead? Where is it set? Relative Pronouns: introduce adjective clauses EX: The author whose books have won awards visited our school. The topic that the author covered fascinated us. Reflexive Pronouns: end in SELF or SELVES and refer to an earlier noun or pronoun in the sentence. These are Intensive Pronouns when they are used to add emphasis. EX: Manuel helped himself to a concert program. [reflexive] I myself could never perform on stage. [intensive]

3. Personal Pronouns I you her me he it we him they us she them Possessive Pronouns my your his mine yours its our her their ours hers theirs Some Indefinite Pronouns all another any anybody anyone anything both each either everybody everyone everything few many most neither nobody none no one one several some somebody someone

4. Demonstrative Pronouns this that these those Some Interrogative Pronouns who which what whom when whose where Relative Pronouns that whom which whose who where Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns myself yourself himself herself itself ourselves themselves

5. Exercise # 1 Identifying Pronouns Directions: Underline all of the pronouns in the paragraph, including possessive pronouns that come before nouns. Paul Simon became a rock and roll musician in the 1960s, along with his friend Art Garfunkel. Together they performed as Simon and Garfunkel. Since then, Paul Simon's musical journey has continued. He wrote the songs for the movie The Graduate. Few can forget songs like "The Sound of Silence." To challenge himself further, Paul Simon began to perform on his own in the mid 1970s. By the mid 1980s he again became an innovator, creating the album Graceland with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a popular South African group. Brazilian drummers worked with Simon on his next album, The Rhythms of the Saints. Who could guess that in the 1990s Paul Simon would team up with the Caribbean born, Nobel Peace Price winning poet, Derek Walcott? They co-wrote the musical Capman for the Broadway stage. It starred Marc Anthony, a famous Puerto Rican singer. This last endeavor shows that people continue to challenge themselves, even those as famous as Paul Simon.