Pronuns

Cards (10)

  • Pronuns are substitutions for a noun
  • Personal pronuns substitute specific people or things, for example you he him she
  • possessive pronuns are used to substitute a noun while indicating possession
  • interrogative pronuns are used in questions and it substitutes the noun it refers to
  • relative pronuns are connectors for two ideas that also substitute a noun
  • who - subject
    whom - object
    whose - owner
    which - options
    what - in general
  • Reflexive pronuns refer back to the noun or subject pronun they substitute
  • 3 cases of reflexive pronuns:
    1. Object = subject : Yesterday I cut myself
    2. Meaning alone (by) : She lives by herself
    3. Emphasis: Jhon himself entered the competition
  • Demostrative pronuns substitute a noun as they indicate distance (time or space): This these that those
  • Indefinite pronuns don't make reference to a specific person, thing, or amount (if u don't have a noun after)