Pronouns Flashcards
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Pronouns
Words used in the place of nouns in a sentence. They refer to a person or thing without giving the name
Antecedent
Noun replaced by the pronoun
Functions that can take a pronoun
Subject
Object
Subject complement
Personal pronouns
Pronouns used to represent people in a sentence
Personal pronouns can inflect according to
Grammatical person
Gender
Case
Number
Possessive pronoun
Pronouns used to indicate ownership
Reflexive pronouns
Pronouns used when the subject of a clause is also the object of the clause’s verb
Indefinite pronouns
Pronouns used in place of a noun that is not being specified in the sentence
Examples of indefinite pronouns
Everyone All Anyone Whatever Many Nobody Someone Somebody
Demonstrative pronouns
Used to indicate specific people or things
What do demonstrative pronouns indicate?
The number, singular or plural
The proximity, near or far
Interrogative pronouns
Used to ask questions about unknown entities, functioning either as the subject or object of such sentences
Five main interrogative pronouns
Who, whose, which, what, whom
Interrogative pronouns as subject in the question
Followed bu affirmative verb
Interrogative verb as object
Followed by an interrogative verb
Relative pronouns
Pronouns used to connect relative clauses to the main clause in a sentence
That
Can only be ised in defining relative clauses
When is “that” more appropriate than which?
After all, any, anything, few, every, everything, many, much, no, nothing, none, some, something
Afternthe noun has been modified by an adjective in the superlative degree
When is whom used?
When it is the object of the verb
When it comes after a preposition
Reciprocal pronouns
Pronouns used when two or more people both act as the subject of the verb, and both individually receive the verb’s action
Two reciprocal pronouns
Each other
One another
Dummy pronouns
Pronouns that function grammatically as pronouns but do not habe antecedents. They refer to nothing in particular
Two dummy pronouns
That
It
