English Pronoun Vocabulary
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- What is a pronoun?
- A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun.
- What is a personal pronoun?
- pronouns that require different forms to express person, number, and gender.
- What is an antecedent?
- the noun that a pronoun replaces
- What indicates whether the antecedent is singular or plural?
- The number
- What indicates whether the antecedent is masculine, feminine, or neuter.
- The gender.
- What are possessive pronouns?
- Personal Pronouns that show ownership or belonging.
- What are demonstrative pronouns?
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Pronouns that specify the individual or the group that is being referred to.
this, that,these,those. - What are reflexive pronouns?
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Prounouns that indicate that people or things.
ends with -self, or -selves - What are intensive pronouns?
- Pronouns are the same as reflexive, but their function is to draw special attention to persons, places or objects.
- What are interrogative Pronouns?
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Pronouns that introduce questions.
ex: who, whom, which, what, and whose. - What are relative pronouns?
- Relative pronouns introduce adjective clauses..who,whose,whom,which and that.
- What are indefinite pronouns?
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Refer to people places or things in general.
all,another,any,both,everybody,everyone,few,many,more somebody.etc.