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PARTS OF SPEECH: PRONOUNS - Coggle Diagram
PARTS OF SPEECH:
PRONOUNS
A word that replaces a noun in a sentence.
Types of Pronouns
1. Personal Pronouns
We use personal pronouns as a substitute for a person's name.
Subjective Pronoun
It replaces the subject in a sentence (I, you, he, she, it, we, they).
Objective Pronoun
It replaces the object in a sentence (me, you, his, her, it, us, them).
2. Possessive Pronouns
The pronouns that show ownership and possession in a sentence
Strong possessive pronoun
They refer back to a noun or noun phrase already used, .replacing it to avoid repetition (
mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs
).
Weak possessive pronoun
Their function is as a determiner in front of a noun to express whom something belongs to (
my, your, her, his, its, our, their
).
3. Indefinite Pronouns
It refers to something that in not definite in a sentence, they do not refer to particular thing or person
Singular Indefinite Pronoun
Someone, somebody, something, no one, nobody, nothing, everyone, everybody, everything, anybody, another, anyone, each, anything, either, other, one, neither, much.
Plural Indefinite Pronoun
Many, several, few, others, both.
4. Relative Pronouns
It relates the relative clause to another clause within a sentence (
Whom, whoever, whomever, who, that, which, whose
)
5. Intensive Pronouns
It emphasizes or intensifies nouns and pronouns and we define it as a pronoun that ends in self or selves. They are not essential in the sentence.. (
Himself, myself, themselves, itself, herself, yourselves, ourselves, yourself
).
9. Distributive Pronouns
It describes a member of a group separately from the group and not collectively or including in that group (
each, either, every, neither, none, everyone, any
).
8. Reflexive Pronouns
They are used when the subject and the object of a sentence refer to the same person or thing. They are essential in the sentence (
Yourself, himself, ourselves, itself, themselves, herself, myself, yourselves, each other
).
7. Interrogative Pronouns
It often stands for something that we are not aware of yet, because we are asking about it.(
whose, what, whom, which, and who
).
6. Demonstrative Pronouns
The nouns that take place of a noun that's already been mentioned in a sentence.(
these, those, such, this, that
).