Parts of speech pronouns

Question 1

How many pronoun classes are there?

Answer 1

nine classes

Question 2

What are personal pronouns, subjective and objective case?

Answer 2

Subjective case: I, we, you, he, she, it, they

objective case: me, us, you, him, her, it, them

Question 3

How many sets of possessive pronouns do we have?

Answer 3

Possessive determiners and possessive pronons

Question 4

What are possessive pronouns for dependent and independent ?

Answer 4

Possesive pronouns are the genitives of of the personal pronouns.
Dependent: My, our, your, his, her, its, their
independent; mine, ours, yours, his, hers, theirs.

Question 5

what are possesive determiner?

Answer 5

Not pronouns like in this sentence: This is David’s book.

This book is David’s.

Question 6

What are reflexive pronouns?

Answer 6

Those ending in self.

First person singular: myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves

Question 7

What two main uses does the reflexive pronouns have?

Answer 7

1. They refer to the same person or thing as the subject
   ex. you’ll hurt yourself
2. the give emphasis to a noun in a noun phrase.
   ex: she herself spoke to me

Question 8

what are demonstrative pronouns?

Answer 8

There are four demonstratives:
singular: this, that
plural: these, those
Demonstratives may also be determiners

Question 9

What are reciprocal pronouns?

Answer 9

Reciprocal pronouns have genitives
each other
one another

Question 10

What are interrogative pronouns?

Answer 10

who (subj. case) whom (objective formal) whose (genitive case)
which, what
(which , what, whose may also be determiners)

Question 11

What are relative pronouns?

Answer 11

Relative pronouns introduce relative clauses.  They have distinction in gender and case. 
subj. case (who, which, that) 
objective. case (whom, which, that) 
genitve case (whose, whose (non-personal )

Question 12

What is the zero relative pronoun?

Answer 12

The omitted pronoun

Question 13

what are nominal relative pronouns

Answer 13

in addition to who, whom, and which, they include, whoever, whomever, whichever, what and whatever
they introduce nominal relative clauses like:
ex. you may take whichever you need.

Question 14

What are indefinitie pronouns

Answer 14

They are the largest group of pronouns and they refer to the precence or abscence of a quantitiy-
many, one, no one, more, both, either fewer, everybody.
Set of some and any.

Question 15

what are numerals?

Answer 15

Numerals may be used as pronouns.
Twenty-two
three, first, second,

Question 16

What are pronoun one?

Answer 16

Pronoun one has two distinct uses:
1. Generic one has the meaning “people in general”
One is genreally restricted to formal style. It does not have a plural form.
substitute one:
ex. I liked my computer, but I preferred the old one.

Question 17

What is a pronoun?

Answer 17

a word that is used instead of a noun or a noun phrase:

Pronouns are often used to refer to a noun that has already been mentioned.