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Sentences Using Pronouns:-2) The Coach Selected Several Key Points. He Wanted The Team To Memorize Them

A pronoun is used in place of a noun to avoid repetition. There are eight main types of pronouns: personal, possessive, reflexive, emphatic, relative, demonstrative, interrogative, and indefinite. Pronouns can refer to people, places, things, qualities, and quantities and are used across different sentence structures.

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Sentences Using Pronouns:-2) The Coach Selected Several Key Points. He Wanted The Team To Memorize Them

A pronoun is used in place of a noun to avoid repetition. There are eight main types of pronouns: personal, possessive, reflexive, emphatic, relative, demonstrative, interrogative, and indefinite. Pronouns can refer to people, places, things, qualities, and quantities and are used across different sentence structures.

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WHAT IS A PRONOUN?

A pronoun is used in place of a specific noun to avoid writing that particular noun repeatedly.

Examples: he, she, they, we, them, these, those, that, it, his, him, her, their, us, etc.
SENTENCES USING PRONOUNS:-
1)Michael is a good boy. He gets up early in the morning.
2)The coach selected several key points. He wanted the team to memorize them.
3)Shreya loved her children. But she could not love her husband.
4)People of the city were afraid of her, because they were nobles and she was queen.
TYPES OF PRONOUN
There are mainly 08 types of pronouns:-
1) Personal Pronouns
2)Possessive Pronouns
3)Reflexive Pronouns
4) Emphatic Pronouns
5)Relative Pronouns
6)Demonstrative Pronouns
7)Interrogative Pronouns
8) Indefinite Pronouns
PERSONAL PRONOUNS

Pronouns use at the place of persons, animals and things.


E.g.: you, he, she, it, we,
they, me, him, her, us, and
them.
SENTENCES USING PERSONAL PRONOUN
i) He plays badminton in our academy.
ii) She is working with a Microsoft company.
iii)They are completing their homework.
iv)We have to be thankful for the food.
POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
These are used at the place of
noun to show possession or
relationship.
E.g.: My, mine, ours, yours,
his, hers, its, and theirs.
SENTENCES USING
POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
a) The kids are yours and
mine.
b) The house is theirs and its
paint is flaking.
c) The money was really theirs
for the taking.
d) What's mine is yours, my
friend.
REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS
These words are used when the action
is done by the subject and we should
add ‘self’ and ‘selves’ to it.
E.g.: Myself, yourself, himself,
herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves
and themselves.
SENTENCES USING REFLEXIVE
PRONOUN
1) I was in a hurry, so I washed the
car myself.
2) You're going to have to drive
yourself to school today.
3) He wanted to impress her, so he
baked a cake himself.
4) We have enjoyed ourselves.
5) You boys should make it
EMPHATIC PRONOUNS

They show emphasis or about whom we are talking to or about the subject and it comes after the main
pronoun.
E.g.: Himself', 'myself' and 'yourself‘
SENTENCES USING EMPHATIC PRONOUNS
1) I myself checked all the paid bills.
2) You yourself can write that article.
3) He himself attended that lecture.
4) She herself baked the cake.
RELATIVE PRONOUNS
A relative pronoun is used to connect a phrase
to a noun or pronoun.
E.g.: who, whom, whose, which, and that.
Sometimes, when and where can be used as
relative pronouns as well.
SENTENCES USING RELATIVE
PRONOUNS
It was my husband who broke the car door.
This is the girl whose notes I borrowed.
The man whom they found was sent home.
The robots, which were waiting outside, were
ready for shipment.
The piggy bank that was on my desk got
broken.
DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS
A demonstrative pronoun is a pronoun that is used to point to
something specific within a sentence. These pronouns can indicate
items in space or time, and they can be either singular or plural.
When used to represent a thing or things, demonstrative pronouns
can be either near or far in distance or time:
Near in time or distance: this, these
Far in time or distance: that, those
E.g.: this, that, these, and those, such, none, neither.
SENTENCES USING DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS
This was my mother’s ring.
That looks like the car I used to drive.
These are nice shoes, but they look uncomfortable.
Those look like riper than the apples on my tree.
Such was her command over the English language.
None of these answers are correct.
Neither of the horses can be ridden.
INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS
An interrogative pronoun is a pronoun used to ask a question.
Usually, an interrogative pronoun is the first word in an interrogative
sentence, which always ends in a question mark.
E.g.: who, when, whom, whose, what, and which.

A sentence that is using an interrogative pronoun to ask an indirect


question may not end in a question mark:
I wonder who will come tomorrow.
She asked us what we wanted for lunch.
SENTENCES USING DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS
Who took the towel?
Whom did you give the key to?
There are shoes by the door. Whose are they?
What are we going to do?
Which of these cookies do you want?
When will you come back?
INDEFINITE PRONOUNS
An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun that doesn’t specifically
identify what it is referring to.
FOR SINGULAR:
another, anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, enough,
everybody, everyone, everything, less, little, much, neither,
nobody, no one, nothing, one, other, somebody, someone,
something.
FOR PLURAL:
both, few, fewer, many, others, several.

Referring to an unknown person: The witness


saw somebody sneaking around.
Referring to a general amount: Most of the kids left,
but several of them are still here.
Referring to a totality or an absence: We tried everything,
but nothing worked.
SENTENCES USING INDEFINITE
PRONOUNS

Singular indefinite pronouns 


He had barely finished his first soda before he started to
drink another.
Everyone was shocked by the sudden announcement.
Little is known about the ancient civilization.

Plural indefinite pronouns


Both of my friends are hungry.
We invited all of the neighbors to the picnic, but few have come.
Several of the boys know how to swim.
H.W. FOR NEXT CLASS- 10.03.22- THURSDAY 9-10PM.
FRAME THREE SENTENCES ON EACH TYPE OF PRONOUNS.

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