Pronouns Lesson 5-8

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Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns

A pronoun that ends in self or selves is either a reflexive or an intensive pronoun. myself yourself herself, himself, itself ourselves yourselves themselves

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Reflexive Pronouns

A reflexive pronoun refers to the subject and directs the action of the verb back to the subject. Reflexive Is reflected by pronouns are necessary (important) to the meaning of a sentence.

Example: The Carson family tried to lift themselves out of poverty.

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Intensive Pronouns

An intensive pronoun emphasizes a noun or another pronoun within the same sentence. Intensive pronouns are not necessary to the meaning of the sentence.

Example: You yourself have overcome many hardships. Dr. Carson himself has survived great 3/11/12 poverty.

AVOID THE FOLLOWING

There are no hisself, herselves or theirselves, themselfs. They are grammatically incorrect.

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Interrogatives and Demonstratives

An interrogative pronoun is used to introduce a question. The interrogative pronouns are: who, whom, what, whose

A demonstrative pronoun points out a person, place, thing or idea. They are:
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that, this, those, these

Interrogative Pronouns

Who is always used as a subject or predicate pronoun.

Example: Subject Who called the power company? Predicate pronoun The electrician is who?

Whom is always used as an object.

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Watch OUT

Dont confuse whose with whos. Whos is a contraction that means who is. (Whos missing?) Whose is an interrogative pronoun. (Whose book is gone?)

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Demonstrative Pronouns

This and these point out people or things that are near, or here. That and those point out people or things that are far away, or there.

This and that are used for singular subjects. These and those are for plural. Example:
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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

The antecedent is the noun or pronoun that a pronoun replaces or refers to. (The antecedent and the pronoun can be in
the same sentence or in different sentences.)
is referred by

Example:

The Hopi people made their homes in the desert. antecendent

is referred by

pronoun

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Hopi settled what is now Arizona.

TAKE NOTE

Pronouns must agree with their antecedents in number, person, and gender.

USE singular pronoun to refer to a singular antecedent. Hopi culture, in all its forms, is alive and well.
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TAKE NOTE

The pronoun must agree in person with the antecedent.

3rd Person

Tribal elders tell the myths of their people.

1st person

We like to listen to our grandparents stories.

Avoid switching from one person to another in the 3/11/12 same sentence or paragraph.

TAKE NOTE

The gender of a pronoun must be the same as the gender of its antecedent. Personal pronouns have 3 gender
forms: masculine (he, his, him), feminine (she, her, hers), and neuter (it, its) masculine pronoun for a male

antecedent

Derrick Davis performs his hoop dances.

feminine pronoun for a female antecedent
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TAKE NOTE

Dont use only masculine or only feminine pronouns when you mean to refer to both genders.

Each dancer has his favorite moves.

(The dancer could either be male or female.)

There are 2 ways to make the sentence more accurate. 1. Use the phrase his or her. Each dancer has his or her favorite 3/11/12 moves.

Indefinite - Pronoun Agreement

An indefinite pronoun does not refer to a specific person, place, thing or idea. (Indefinite pronouns often do not have
antecedents.)

Nothing lasts forever. Anyone can make a time capsule.

Some indefinite pronouns are always singular, some are always plural, and some can either be plural or singular.
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Indefinite Pronouns
Singular another anybody anyone anything each either everybody everyone everything much neither nobody no one nothing none somebody someone something Plural both few many several Singular or Plural all any most none some

PRONOUNS CONTAINING one, thing, or body ARE ALWAYS SINGULAR

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TAKE NOTE

USE a singular personal pronoun to refer to a singular indefinite pronoun.

is referred by

Everyone added his or her favorite item to the capsule. (Everyone could be male
or female.)

One of the girls put her soccer ball in the box.

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TAKE NOTE

USE a plural personal pronoun to refer to a plural indefinite pronoun.

is referred by

Many contributed to their favorite CDs or video games. Few realized that their electronics may become completely outdated.
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TAKE NOTE

SOME indefinite pronouns can be singular or plural. (The phrase that follows the
indefinite pronoun will often tell you whether it is singular or plural.) singular noun

Some of the time capsule looks like it is very old.

Singular indefinite pronoun singular personal pronoun

plural noun

Some of the time capsules list their contents 3/11/12 outside.

WORK for the DAY

Do Practice and Apply, CONCEPT CHECK (Language Network) pages 69, 72, 75, and 78. Do numbers 4-10 only. Write your answers in your Language Arts notebook. (If you dont have it with you, write it in a sheet of paper and paste it in your notebook when 3/11/12 come back to school.) you