Pronouns Flashcards
Word used instead of a noun
Pronoun
They can be used instead of a noun that might have been or not previously mentioned
Pronoun
Types of pronouns
- Normal ones /nominative
- Acussative
- Posessive
Types of subclasses:
- Personal
- Reflexive
- Reciprocal
- Relative
- Free relative
- Interrogative
- Demonstrative
- Indefinite
These pronouns depend on an antecendent or the context
Personal pronouns
is ‘whose’ a pronoun?
YES! a genitive
Classes of ‘it’
- anticipatory
- cleft
- referential
- dummy
This use of ‘it’ signals to an entity already introduced
Referential
This use of ‘it’ is meaningless and we use it while talking about the weather o environment
Dummy
This use of ‘it’ stands in for an object or subject that has been displaced
Anticipatory
This use of ‘it’ is also known as introductory it
Cleft
These words are linked to a noun phrase in which the subject = object
Reflexive pronouns
myself, yourself, himself, themselves, oneself, ourselves, yourselves
reflexive pronouns
¿Which kind of pronouns are ‘each other’ and ‘one another’?
Reciprocal pronouns
‘who, whom, whose and which’ are what kinid of pronouns?
Relative pronouns
These pronouns substitute a noun, place, person
Interrogative pronouns
Who, whom, whose, which, what
Interrogative pronouns
These pronouns do not refer to individuals or entities previously mentioned
Indefinite
This, these, that, those
indefinite pronouns
another
aditive pronoun
few, fewer, less, little, many, more, most, much
degree pr
either, neither
disjunctive
each, every, everybody, everyone, everywhere
distributive
any, some, somebody, someone, something
existential
