Pronouns Flashcards
Take the place of a noun
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Personal pronoun
- Takes the place of a person
- He went out last night
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First person
I
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Second Person
You
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Third Person
He / She
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Singular
- One Person
- She / It
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Plural
- More Than One
- They / We
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Third Person Plural Personal Pronoun
- They are going out
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Possessive Pronoun
- Shows possession
- Mine / yours / ours / theirs / his / hers
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Reflexive Pronoun
- Has self added to the pronoun
- Do it yourself / I’ll do it myself
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Reciprocal Pronouns
- When two or more people or things act mutually or do the same action to each other
- each other / one another
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Demonstrative Pronouns
- Point to specific people, places, or things
- This / that / these / those
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Indefinite pronouns
- Refer to people, places, or things in a non-specific way. They do not point to a particular person or thing
- somebody / someone, anybody / anyone, nobody / no one, everything / anything
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Interrogative pronouns
- Found at the start of interrogatives
- who / what / where / when / whatever
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Relative Pronouns
- Follow the noun they refer to
- That’s the dress I want to buy