[Parts of Speech] Pronouns

Question 1

What are the four (4) types of Pronouns? Give Examples

Answer 1

1. Personal - (I, me/you, him/her, he/she, us/they/them)
2. Possessive - (mine/yours, his/hers, ours/theirs)
   * no article and followed by a noun.
3. Reflexive - (myself/yourself, itself, ourselves/yourselves)
4. Relative - (who, which, that, whose)
   * used to connect clauses in a sentence, introduce relative clauses

Question 2

Subject Pronouns vs Object Pronouns.

• Define
• give examples

Answer 2

Subject pronouns - come before a verb (a doing word)
eg. (I) have seen that movie.
(He) sleeps all day.

Object Pronouns - normally come after a verb.
eg. He is chasing (me).
He likes (you).

Question 3

Possessive Pronouns vs Possessive Adjectives.

• define
• give examples

Answer 3

Possessive Pronouns - replace nouns (the thing) eg. mine, ours, yours, its, his, hers)

Possessive Adjectives - describes nouns eg. my, our, your, their, its, his, her

*(his) and (its) can be used either as possessive nouns or possessive adjectives dependent on how they are used in a sentence.