English Grammar - Pronouns

Question 1

What does a pronoun do?

Answer 1

Replaces a noun in a sentence

Question 2

What does a possessive pronoun do? Provide an example

Answer 2

• Shows ownership = usually end in -s, unlike possessive determiners, and are not followed by a noun
• “This house is MINE, not YOURS”

Question 3

What is a reflexive pronoun? Provide an example

Answer 3

• Refer back to a previous pronoun

- “You can suit YOURSELF”

Question 4

What is an indefinite pronoun? Provide an example

Answer 4

• Allows us to be indefinite
• “SOMEBODY has taken my shoe!”
• no one, none, nothing, anyone

Question 5

What is a reciprocal pronoun? Provide an example

Answer 5

• Shows reciprocity

- Each other, one another (there’s only these 2)

Question 6

What is a personal pronoun? Provide an example

Answer 6

• Relates to first/second/third person and sing/plural

- “I went to work and met HIM”

Question 7

What is a demonstrative pronoun? Provide an example

Answer 7

• Shows the thing/person we’re referring to
• Deictic
• “THIS is what I’m talking about!”

Question 8

What is an interrogative pronoun? Provide an example

Answer 8

• At the start of interrogative sentences
• “WHAT did he say?”
• Who, what, when, where, why, whatever

Question 9

What is a relative pronoun? Provide an example

Answer 9

• Immediately follows the noun to which they refer
• “New York is the city THAT never sleeps”
• Other e.x = whom