Pronouns

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Pronouns
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Why Use Pronouns?

• Pronouns stand in for nouns, so you dont have to
  repeat yourself.
• Restate the following sentence as if you were
  Jacob

• Jacob broke the window when Jacob hit the
  baseball with Jacobs bat.

• I broke the window when I hit the baseball with
  my bat.

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3 Kinds of Personal Pronouns
Singular Plural
First Person I, me, my, mine we, us, our, ours
Second Person you, your, yours you, your, yours
Third Person he, him, his she, her, hers it, its they, them, their, theirs
After you have filled in your shapes, flip to the
back of each shape and write a sentence using at
least 2 pronouns from inside the shape. Share
these with a friend.
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Personal Pronouns as Subjects/Objects
Pronouns Subject Object
First Person I, we me, us
Second Person you you (plural) you you (plural)
Third Person he, she, it, they him, her, it, them
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Identify the personal pronoun.

• When I turned on the lie detector, it told me it
  had a headache.
• I cant believe you ate thirty-nine kumquats,
  said Tom to his brother.
• Gertrude threw the banana cream pie at the judge,
  but she later apologized.
• Alvin asked Tim to loan him his skateboard, but
  Tim said, Buy your own!

• When I turned on the lie detector, it told me it
  had a headache.
• I cant believe you ate thirty-nine kumquats,
  said Tom to his brother.
• Gertrude threw the banana cream pie at the judge,
  but she later apologized.
• Alvin asked Tim to loan him his skateboard, but
  Tim said, Buy your own!

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Reflexive Pronouns

• Reflexive pronouns are pronouns which end with
  the suffix self or selves
• These pronouns name a person or thing that
  receives an action when that same person or thing
  is the one performing the action

• Example We laughed at ourselves.

• Write your own example and share it with the
  class.

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myself oneself himself herself itself
yourself yourselves ourselves themselves
Use a reflexive pronoun for each sentence.

• Miss Apple always says to the class,
  Behave________ out there!
• Beatrice considers _______ the roller blade
  champion of Junction City.
• If you worry _______ about the world too much,
  you will tie _________ in knots.
• The tornado blew ____ out before it reached
  Kansas.

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Demonstrative Pronouns

• Demonstrative pronouns help you demonstrate by
  pointing out a person, place, or thing
• There are only four this, that, these, those
• This and these point to what is nearby
• That and those point to what is farther away

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Indefinite Pronouns

• Indefinite pronouns refer to people, places, or
  things in a general way.
• When an indefinite pronoun is the subject of a
  sentence, the verb must agree in number with the
  pronoun.

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Indefinite Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns
Singular Plural Singular or Plural
anybody neither anything nobody each no one either nothing everybody one everyone other everything someone much somebody something both few many others several all any more most none some
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Remember

• Indefinite pronouns that are singular are used
  with singular verbs.
• Everyone is smart.
• Indefinite pronouns that are always plural are
  used with plural verbs.
• Many of my presents are hidden beneath the bed.

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I-Try

• Write a sentence using a singular indefinite
  pronoun.
• Write a sentence using a plural indefinite
  pronoun.

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Interrogative Pronouns
which

• a pronoun used in order to ask a question
• often it has no antecedent because the antecedent
  is unknown

whom
who
what
whose
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Interrogative Pronouns- Example

• What did you say?
• Who said that?

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Possessive Pronouns

• Use possessive forms of personal pronouns to show
  ownership
• Some possessive pronouns come before nouns
• I left my homework on the bus.
• Other possessive pronouns are used by themselves
  to show ownership. These pronouns do not come
  before nouns.
• These diamonds are mine.

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Possessive Pronouns Possessive Pronouns
Used Before Nouns Used by Themselves
my its your our his their her mine its yours ours his theirs hers
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Antecedents

• Antecedent the noun that the pronoun stands in
  for
• In the following sentences, first identify the
  pronoun. Then identify the antecedent.

• This is the pen he used to write the note.

• This is the pen he used to write the note.

• This is the pen he used to write the note.

• The bat built its home in our attic.

• The bat built its home in our attic.

• The bat built its home in our attic.

• Was that the road we were supposed to take?

• Was that the road we were supposed to take?

• Was that the road we were supposed to take?

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A Common Pronoun Dilemma . . .

• Singular or Plural??
• Singular pronouns only replace singular nouns
• Kathy broke the vase. She was guilty!
• Plural pronouns only replace plural nouns
• Mark and Kathy were playing ball in the house.
  They disobeyed the rules!

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Another Common Pronoun Dilemma . . .

• I or me?? when there are more than one person
  involved
• I will always be the subject doing the action.
• Tom and I played chess last week.
• Me will always be the noun receiving the action.
• Catherine let Tom and me play chess at her house.

Check your answer by taking out the other
persons name and reading the sentence with just
the pronoun to see if its correct!