Pronouns 6 types: Demonstrative Interrogative Personal
Possessive Reflexive Indefinite
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Definition: Do not refer to any specific person, place, or
thing; they refer to a general person, place or thing
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Indefinite Pronouns Example: Someone ate all of the brownies.
Neither of the boys caught the ball. Both of the horses are in the
meadow.
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Indefinite Pronouns All any anybody anyone anything botheach
either everybody everyone fewmany most neither nobody none no one
one other several some somebody someone something
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Indefinite Pronouns Directions: Write the indefinite pronoun in
each sentence. 1. Each of the boys brought a friend to the race. 2.
A few decided to eat Italian food last night. 3. All of the
students chose blue pencils. 4. Can anybody go to the concert? 5. I
hope neither of the girls fall into the lake. 6. Susan ran home,
but others walked. 7. John has several of those Nike shoes. 8. No
one signed up to bring in tissues. 9. Would someone please walk the
dog? 10. Both of the students need to report to Mrs. Lyons
office.
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Possessive Pronoun
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Definition: Takes the place of a noun that shows ownership
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Possessive Pronoun Examples: The white cat is Katies. The white
cat is hers. The children are saving the childrens money. The
children are saving their money.
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Possessive Pronoun The following possessive pronouns can stand
alone: Hers Mine Ours Theirs Yours Examples: The coat is mine. The
shoes are yours.
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Possessive Pronouns The following pronouns must be used before
nouns: Her Its My Our Their Your Examples: Her car is red. Our car
is black.
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Possessive Pronouns The pronoun his may be used either way.
Examples: That is his dog. The dog is his.
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Possessive Pronouns Directions: Write the possessive pronoun in
each sentence. 1. Lora lost her bracelet. 2. The students should
take their books. 3. Brad entered his sculpture in the contest. 4.
How did Texas get its name? 5. Isnt Alaska noted for its salmon? 6.
Gina, where is your brother? 7. Mr. Owens found his keys. 8. Travis
bought his mother a beautiful scarf from India. 9. Lisa drove her
car to the top of the mountain. 10.Pam sprained her ankle while
skiing.
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Personal Pronouns
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Definition: Refers to you or someone else
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Personal Pronouns Examples: She is a very tall girl. You are my
best friend. My mom is so strict on us.
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Personal Pronouns SingularPlural First Person Second Person
Third Person
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Personal Pronouns SingularPlural First PersonI, meWe, us,
Second Person Third Person
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Personal Pronouns SingularPlural First PersonI, meWe, us Second
PersonYou Third Person
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Personal Pronouns SingularPlural First PersonI, meWe, us Second
PersonYou Third PersonHe, him She It They, them
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Personal Pronouns Directions: Write the personal pronoun. Write
1 st, 2 nd, or 3 rd for each pronoun. Then write S or P for
singular or plural. 1. He just started middle school. 2. They came
by the car. 3. Alexis is a great friend. 4. Scott met him on the
first day.
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Demonstrative Pronouns
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Definition: Points out a specific person, place, or thing Note:
Does not name the noun
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Demonstrative Pronouns Only 4: This, That, These, Those
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Demonstrative Pronouns Examples: I saw this in a magazine. What
are you doing with that? I dont want that in here. Could we please
buy these? Where did you find those?
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Demonstrative Pronouns SingularPlural If the object is
nearbyThis -This is the desk I sit in. These - These are my shoes.
If the object is far awayThat - That is my school. Those - Those
are my friends.
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Interrogative Pronouns
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Definition: A pronoun that introduces a question.
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Interrogative Pronouns Only 5: Who Whom Whose What Which
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Interrogative Pronouns Examples: Who wants to come to the
board? Whom will you take to the party? Whose is this? What did you
ask? Which should I have for lunch?
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Interrogative Pronouns Using Interrogative Pronouns Write one
sentence using each interrogative pronoun. You may not use any of
the sentence from the previous slide.
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Reflexive Pronouns
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Definition: A pronoun which reflects back on to itself (like a
mirror)
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Reflexive Pronouns Examples: I am so angry with myself for not
studying harder. They ate all the food themselves. We painted the
house by ourselves.