Grammar Unit II: Pronouns

Lesson 1

Personal Pronouns(Pronouns that are friendly!)

Pronoun: a word that is used to replace a noun

Ex: Marcy went to the market, and she bought bread.

DEFINITIONs

Personal Pronoun: a word that is used to replace a noun that refers to a person or thing

Ex: Marcy went to the market, and she bought bread.

Two cases of personal pronouns include

Personal pronouns

SUBJECT

Subject pronouns are the subject of a verb.

They generally appear BEFORE the verb.

OBJECT

Object pronouns are the receiver of the

action of the verb or for whom an action

was performed. They generally appear AFTER the verb.

She went to the store.

Subject pronoun Jordan bought her roses.

Object pronoun

!The exception!

The exception to this is when the verb is a linking verb (and not an action verb).

BASIC LINKING VERBS

AM

IS

ARE

WAS

WERE

BE

BEING

BEEN

The exception?

Subject pronouns are used AFTER these verbs.

The best player is she.

LINKING VERB

SUBJECT PRONOUN

TESTING YOUR KNOWLEDGE

What is a pronoun?A word that takes the place of a noun

What is a personal pronoun?A word that takes the place of a person or thing

Give the seven subject pronouns: I, we, you, she, he, it, they

When do you use subject pronouns?When it is the subject of the sentence or AFTER a linking verb

List the basic linking verbs?am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been

TESTING YOUR KNOWLEDGE cont.

Give the seven object pronouns?me, us, you, her, him, it, them

When do you use object pronouns?After action verbs—or to describe who is receiving the action of the verb or to describe for whom the action was performed.