Pronouns

Question 1

Pronouns

Answer 1

Words used in the place of nouns in a sentence. They refer to a person or thing without giving the name

Question 2

Antecedent

Answer 2

Noun replaced by the pronoun

Question 3

Functions that can take a pronoun

Answer 3

Subject
Object
Subject complement

Question 4

Personal pronouns

Answer 4

Pronouns used to represent people in a sentence

Question 5

Personal pronouns can inflect according to

Answer 5

Grammatical person
Gender
Case
Number

Question 6

Possessive pronoun

Answer 6

Pronouns used to indicate ownership

Question 7

Reflexive pronouns

Answer 7

Pronouns used when the subject of a clause is also the object of the clause’s verb

Question 8

Indefinite pronouns

Answer 8

Pronouns used in place of a noun that is not being specified in the sentence

Question 9

Examples of indefinite pronouns

Answer 9

Everyone
All 
Anyone
Whatever
Many
Nobody
Someone
Somebody

Question 10

Demonstrative pronouns

Answer 10

Used to indicate specific people or things

Question 11

What do demonstrative pronouns indicate?

Answer 11

The number, singular or plural

The proximity, near or far

Question 12

Interrogative pronouns

Answer 12

Used to ask questions about unknown entities, functioning either as the subject or object of such sentences

Question 13

Five main interrogative pronouns

Answer 13

Who, whose, which, what, whom

Question 14

Interrogative pronouns as subject in the question

Answer 14

Followed bu affirmative verb

Question 15

Interrogative verb as object

Answer 15

Followed by an interrogative verb

Question 16

Relative pronouns

Answer 16

Pronouns used to connect relative clauses to the main clause in a sentence

Question 17

That

Answer 17

Can only be ised in defining relative clauses

Question 18

When is “that” more appropriate than which?

Answer 18

After all, any, anything, few, every, everything, many, much, no, nothing, none, some, something
Afternthe noun has been modified by an adjective in the superlative degree

Question 19

When is whom used?

Answer 19

When it is the object of the verb

When it comes after a preposition

Question 20

Reciprocal pronouns

Answer 20

Pronouns used when two or more people both act as the subject of the verb, and both individually receive the verb’s action

Question 21

Two reciprocal pronouns

Answer 21

Each other

One another

Question 22

Dummy pronouns

Answer 22

Pronouns that function grammatically as pronouns but do not habe antecedents. They refer to nothing in particular

Question 23

Two dummy pronouns

Answer 23

That

It