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What's a pronoun?
- A pronoun is a word that substitutes
- a noun or a noun phrase.
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How Many functions the pronouns
perform?
pronouns perform 9 functions.
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What functions the pronouns
perform?
- These functions are:
- 1. Personal noun.
- 2. Relative noun
- 3. Interrogative noun.
- 4. Demostrative noun.
- 5. Possessive noun.
- 6. Indefinitive noun.
- 7. Intensive noun.
- 8. Reflexive noun.
- 9. Reciprocal noun.
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What's a personal noun?
- We use personal nouns in place of the person
- or people that we are talking about.
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How we use a personal noun?
- We use them depending on:
- Number: singular (I), plural (we).
- Person: 1st. (I), 2nd (you), 3rd (he).
- Gender: male (he), female (she), or neuter (it)
- Case: subject (we), Object (us).
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What's a relative pronoun?
- A relative pronoun is a pronoun that introduces
- a relative clause. it is called a "relative"
- pronoun because it "relates" to the word that
- its relative relative clause modifies. Ex.:
- The person who phoned me last night is my teacher
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What's an interrogative noun?
We use interrogative nouns to make questions. The interrogative pronoun represents the thing that we don't know (what we are asking the question about).
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How many main interrogative we have?
- There are four main interrogative pronouns:
- who, whom, what which.
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When we use whom?
Whom is the correct form when the pronoun is the object of the verb as in "whom did you see?".
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When we use the suffix "-ever"?
- Sometimes we use that suffix to make compounds from some of these pronouns (whoever, whatever, whichever). Ex.:
- Whoever would want to do such a nasty thing.
- Whatever did he say to make her cry like that?
- They're all fantastic! Whichever will you choose?
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What's a demostrative pronoun?
- A demostrative pronoun represents a thing or things.
- a. Near in distance or time (this, these).
- b. Far in distance or time (that, those).
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How we use the demostrative nouns?
Singular: this ( near), That ( far).
- 1. This tastes good.
- 2. Have you seen this?
- 3. These are bad time.
- 4. Do you like this?
- 5. That is beautiful.
- 6. Look ar that!
- 7. Those were the days!
- 8. Can you see those?
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What's a possessive noun?
- The possessive noun is a form. This form is used with nouns referring to people, group of people, countries and animals. "Belonging to" or "ownership" is one of the relationship it express. Ex.:
- John owns a car. ('John' is the possessor or owner). It is John's car.
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what's an indefinite noun?
An indefinite pronoun does no refer to any specific person, thing or amount. It is vague and "not definite".
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What words can be identified as indefinite pronouns?
those words as: all, another, any, anybody/anyone, anything, each, everybody/everyone, everything, few, many, nobody, none, one, several, some, somebody/someone.
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How we an clasified an indefinite pronoun?
they are clasified as singular and plural.
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