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Recognizing Pronouns
by: Lesly Claribell Paz
Monday, July 27, 2020
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. It can be used in a sentence in places a noun would be used: subject, predicate nominative, direct object, indirect object, object of preposition, or appositive.
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Alex Dunbar is our bus driver. He knows every rider by name. (The pronoun He takes the place of the noun Alex Dunbar.)
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An antecedent is the word for which a pronoun stands.
Alex Dunbar is our bus driver. He knows every rider by name. (Alex Dunbar is the antecedent of the pronoun He)
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Note: The antecedent is not always stated.
Was she at her house? (The antecedent of she and her is not stated.)
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There are various kinds of pronouns.
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Personal pronouns refer to the speaker (I, me, we, us, my, mine, our, ours); the person spoken to (you, your, yours); and the person spoken about (he, she, it, they, him, her, them, his, hers, its, their, theirs).
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Interrogative pronouns are used to ask a question (who, whom, whose, which, what).
Demonstrative pronouns point out the person or thing referred to (this, that, these, those).
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Indefinite pronouns do not definitely point out persons or things and do not usually have antecedents (each, either, neither, one, everyone, everybody, no one, nobody, anyone, anybody, someone, somebody, both, few, several, marry, some, any, none, all, most).
Compound pronouns are pronouns combined with –self or -selves (myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, oneself, themselves).
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Relative pronouns are used to introduce dependent clauses (who, whom, whose, which, that).
Four of the teens who attended the retreat were cousins.
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Note: Many of the words called pronouns here may also function as adjectives: each entry; his jacket.
Exercise
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Exercise
(1) underline each pronoun.
(2) Above each pronoun, identify its kind. Write a for personal, b for interrogative, c for demonstrative, d for indefinite, e for compound, and f for relative.
1. Pray for those that persecute you.
2. They that deny themselves for Christ,
shall enjoy themselves in Christ. –J. M. Mason
3. Love gives itself; it is not bought. -Longfellow
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Practice
Exercise (Numbers 4-10) p.176