Grammar Fix Part 1

Pronouns What are they? Words that take the place of a noun How many can you think of? There are many, but they fall in to Five main groups

Personal Personal pronouns Personal pronouns represent people or things. The personal pronouns are: I, you, he, she, it, we, they Subjective Personal Pronouns The list above shows the subjective personal pronouns. These are the versions used for the subjects of verbs. For example: You are happy. They won the league. Objective Personal Pronouns These are the versions used for the objects of verbs. The objective personal pronouns are: me, you, him, her, it, us, and them.

Demonstrative Demonstrative pronouns e.g. this, that, these, those. Demonstrative pronouns are used to replace specific people or things that have been previously mentioned (or are understood from context).

Relative Relative pronoun A relative pronoun is a pronoun that introduces an adjective clause. In English, the relative pronouns are: that, which, who, whom, whose A relative pronoun is used to start a description of a noun. (This description is called an adjective clause or a relative clause.)

Possessive Possessive pronouns The term possessive pronoun covers possessive adjectives and absolute possessive pronouns. Possessive Adjectives - my, your, his, her, its, our, their, whose Absolute Possessive Pronouns - mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs Possessive pronouns are used to indicate who (or what) owns something. Like all pronouns, possessive pronouns take the place of nouns in sentences.

Reflexive Reflexive pronouns myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves. A reflexive pronoun is used with another noun (or pronoun) when something does something to itself. Eg John pinched himself. (The reflexive pronoun himself tells us that John did something to John.)

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