Pronoun
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- Pronoun
- A word that stands for or replaces a noun. that antecedent is the word that the...replaces. ...may be masculine gender, femine gender or neuter gender. ... may have person and number.
- Possessive PRO (Pronouns)
- ...: mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, theirs.
- Interrogative
- ...pronouns are used to ask question (that require a noun or pronoun answer): Who, whose, whom, which, what.
- Personal
- ...pronouns ase: I, mine, me, we, ours, us, he, his, him, she, her, hers, it, you, yours, they, theirs, them.
- Nominative
- ...case peronal pronouns (subject pronouns) - I, we, he, she they -are used as subjects of clauses and as subject complements.
- Demonstrative (Pronominal)
- ...pronouns/adjectives are used to ... or point: this, that, these, those.
- Objective
- ...case personal pronouns - me, us, him, her, them (object pronouns) are used as direct objects, indirect object complements.
- Possessive ADJ (Adjectives)
- ...: my, our, your, his, her, its, their.
- Possessive (Pronominal)
- ...pronouns/adjectives indicate possession or ownership and are used as both pronoun and adjective. (no apostrophes are needed since these are alredy in possessive form.)
- Distributive (Pronominals)
- ...pronouns/adjectives: each, either, neither. EACH is always singular.
- Relative
- ...pronouns are words that relate an adjective clause to the main clause in a complex sentence. It relates to another non or pronoun already used in the sentence. The ... pronouns are: who, whose, whom, which, that.
- Indefinite
- ...pronouns are that do not have a definite antecedent, but they do replace more specific nouns: all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, everybody, everyone, everything, few, many, nobody, none, no one, nothing, one, several, some, somebody, someone, something, such.