English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. English Essentials John Langan Beth Johnson Pronoun Types Chapter Seventeen

Pronoun Forms English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 Pronoun Types Let’s take a look at three types of pronouns: Subject and Object PronounsSubject and Object Pronouns Possessive PronounsPossessive Pronouns Relative PronounsRelative Pronouns Reflexive and Intensive PronounsReflexive and Intensive Pronouns Interrogative PronounsInterrogative Pronouns

Pronoun Forms English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 Subject and Object Pronouns are the subjects of verbs.Iyou he, she, it wethey are the objects of verbs or prepositions.me you (no change) him, her, it (no change) usthem

Pronoun Forms English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 Subject Pronouns are the subjects of verbs.Examples: I am about to leave. You shouldn’t do that. She told you so. We agree with her. They do, too. There are a few rules to keep in mind about subject pronouns: Rule 1: Use a subject pronoun in spots where you have more than one subject....

Pronoun Forms English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 Subject Pronouns Rule 1: Use a subject pronoun in spots where you have more than one subject.... Incorrect: My sister and me are about to go to Spain.Correct: My sister and I are about to go to Spain. Hint: Separate the pronouns. You wouldn’t say, “Me am about to go to Spain.” Would you?

Pronoun Forms English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 6 Subject Pronouns Rule 2: Use a subject pronoun after forms of the verb “be.” Incorrect: It is him.Correct: It is he. Hint: Reword the sentence: He is here.

Pronoun Forms English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 7 Subject Pronouns Rule 3: Use a subject pronoun after than or as. Incorrect: We don’t need as much attention as them.Correct: We don’t need as much attention as they. Hint: Mentally add the “missing” verb at the end: We don’t need as much attention as they (do).

Pronoun Forms English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 8 Object Pronouns......are the objects of verbs or prepositions. Incorrect: I loaned ten dollars to his wife and he. The pronoun here is the object of the preposition “to.” Correct: I loaned ten dollars to his wife and him. Hint: Try the pronoun by itself: I loaned ten dollars to him.

Pronoun Forms English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 9 Possessive Pronouns show ownership or possession. Here’s a list of my, mineour, ours your, yoursyour, yours histheir, theirs her, hers its Note: A possessive pronoun uses an apostrophe

Pronoun Forms English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 10 Possessive Pronouns... Note: A possessive pronoun uses an apostrophe Incorrect: That BMW is hers’.Correct: That BMW is hers.

Pronoun Forms English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 11 Relative Pronouns......refer to someone or something already mentioned in the sentence, and start a word group that gives additional information about that person or thing. Examples: -The only person who loves me lives in Dallas. -This is the book that Dr. Brown assigned last week. A list of relative pronouns: whowhich whosethat whom

Pronoun Forms English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 12 Relative Pronouns... Here are some things to keep in mind about relative pronouns: Whose means belonging to whom. Ex. This is the man whose car I wrecked. Who, whose and whom all refer to people, which refers to things, and that can refer to either people or things. Ex. There is the man who always makes mistakes. He might lose the job that he got last month. Who is a subject pronoun. Ex. I heard he was the man who won the lottery. Whom is an object pronoun. Use it as an object of a verb or preposition. Ex. Yes, that is the man to whom the lottery will be sending millions of dollars.

Pronoun Forms English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 Demonstrative Pronouns point to or single out a person or thing. They are a kind of relative pronoun. There are four thisthese thatthose Rules of thumb: This and these refer to things close at hand. That and those refer to things farther away.

Pronoun Forms English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 14 Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns... reflexive pronounA reflexive pronoun is the object in sentences in which the object is the same as the subject. myself EX: I saw myself in the mirror. intensive pronounAn intensive pronoun emphasizes a noun or another pronoun. yourself EX: You should bake the cake yourself. …are: Singular: myself yourself himself, herself, itself Plural: ourselves yourselves themselves

Pronoun Forms English Essentials ©2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 15 Interrogative Pronouns... …are used to ask questions. Some common interrogative pronouns include: Who? Whose? Which? What? When? Why?