The Pronoun, what is pronoun and kinds of pronoun

PRONUN

WHAT IS PRONOUN?

          A Pronoun is a word that takes a place of or refer to a noun.

Example: Nobody did nothing

Pronoun is devided into seven kinds:

1.     Personal Pronoun                    : I have a book

2.     Possessive Pronoun                 : The blue pen is mine

3.     Demonstrative Pronoun                    : This is a book

4.     Relative Pronoun                     : I like the person who is diligent

5.     Interrogative Pronoun             : Who gave you this letter?

6.     Indefinite Pronoun                             : Much has been done

7.     Emphatic and Revlexive                    : The leader himself wrote the song

A. PERSONAL PRONOUN

 A personal pronoun is a word stand for the person speaking, spoken to, or spoken of. It may be the subject or the object of sentence.

Example:

a.     I have a stamp-album (subject)

b.     My father gave me a present (object)

Subject:                                              Object:

                        I                                                           Me

                        You                                                     You

                        He                                                       Him

                        She                                                      Her

                        It                                                         It

                        We                                                       Us

                        You                                                     You

                        They                                                    Them

B.   POSSESSIVE PRONOUN

A possessive  is the pronoun used to show the possession

Example:

a.    The blue pen is mine

b.    Is this key yours?

Pesrsonal Pronoun:                              Possessive Pronoun:

I – Me                                                 Mine

You – you                                                       Yours

He – him                                                         His

She – her                                                         Her

We – Us                                                          Ours

You – you                                                       Yours

They – them                                                    Theirs

C.   DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN

  A demonstrative pronoun is a word that points back some nouns going before (this, that, these, those). This and that refer to singular nouns. While these and those refer to plural ones.

Example:

a.     This is math and that is reading book

b.     These  sandals are new, but those boots are old

D.   RELATIVE (CONJUNCTIVE) PRONOUN

 A relative or conjunctive pronoun is a word to connect two word or phrases such as: who, which, that, whom, and whose.

Example:

a.     I llike person who is diligent

b.     We saw film, which was very amusing.

E.   INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN

Interrogative pronoun  are used to ask questions and they are who, whom, whose, what and which.

Example:

a.      Who gave you this letter?

b.     From whom did you borrow the ladder?

F.    INDEFINITE PRONOUN

Example:

a.       Someone sent me a letter (persons and things)

b.       Both of them come to school on time (quantity)

Indefinite pronouns of the persons and things

            Someone                     no one

            Somebody                   nobody

            Something                   nothing

            Anyone                       everyone

            Anybody                     everybody

            Anything                     everything

Indefinite pronouns of quantity

            A lot (of)                     lots (of)

            All                               many

            Another                       more

            Any                             most

            Both                            much

            Each                            neither

            Either                          none

            Least                           plenty

            Less                             several

            Little                           some

G.  EMPHATIC AND REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS

 Emphatic and reflexive pronouns have the same forms. An emphatic pronoun  is used to emphasize the noun or pronoun which it refers to. It usually follows immediately upon that noun or pronoun although it may also come at the end of the sentence. Reflexive pronoun functions as the object of a sentence and come after the verb, but it refrsto the noun or pronoun which is the subject. In a sentence with a reflexive pronoun the subject and the object are the same person.

 Example:

a.     The leader himself wrote the song (Emphatic)

b.     The boy told himself to work hard (Reflexive)

Personal Pronoun     Emphatic and Reflexive Pronoun

I                                   myself

You                             yourself

He                               himself

She                              herself

It                                 itself

We                               ourselves

You                             yourselves

They                            themselves