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Introducing: PRONOUNS

Mrs. Dianne Cline

7th grade GRC

Oak Mountain Middle School


Pronouns & Antecedents:• Pronoun: a word used in place

of one or more nouns• Ex. Chris threw the football. He threw it.• Antecedent: the noun the

pronoun replaced• Ex. Hayley, have you put away

your toys?


Reflexive Pronouns

• “Reflects” – mirrors

• directs action of verb back to the subject

• ends in –self or –selves

• Sally drew herself a picture.


EXAMPLES:• Myself

• Ourselves

• Yourself

• Himself

• Itself

• Themselves


Relative Pronouns:• “Relates”

• introduces a subordinate clause

• does not introduce a question

• there are 5 relative pronouns


EXAMPLES:

• That

• Which

• Who

• Whom

• Whose


Intensive Pronouns:

• “Intensifies”

• emphasizes a noun or pronoun

• not necessary

• end in –self or –selves

• You can cross it out & the sentence still says the same thing


EXAMPLES:• She drew that herself.

• We ourselves agree with the teacher.

• The girl herself wanted to sign up for the soccer team.


Interrogative Pronouns:

• “Interrogates”

• introduces a question


EXAMPLES:• What?

• Which?

• Who?

• Whom?

• Whose?

• How


Personal Pronouns:• refers to the person speaking

(1st person), the one spoken to (2nd person), or the one spoken about (3rd person)

• have person (1st, 2nd, or 3rd), number (singular or plural), and gender (male or female)


EXAMPLES:• I, me, my, mine

• You, your, yours

• He, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its

• We, us, our, ours

• They, them, their, theirs


Indefinite Pronouns:

• does not refer to a specific noun


EXAMPLES:• Anything

• Anyone

• Somebody

• Few

• Many

• More

• All

• Both


Indefinite Pronouns: Agreement

ALWAYS Singular ALWAYS Plural Can be singular OR Plural

Another, anyone, each, everyone,

everybody, everything, much, nobody, nothing, other, someone,

anybody, anything, either, little,

neither, no one, one, somebody,

something

Both, few, many, others,

several

All, any, more, most, none, some


Demonstrative Pronouns:

• “DEMONSTRATES”

• Points out a noun

• There are 4 of them


EXAMPLES:• This

• That

• These

• Those

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