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Pronouns Lesson 5-8

pp. 68-78



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Reflexive and IntensivePronouns

• A pronoun that ends in self or selvesis either a reflexive or an intensivepronoun.

myself yourself herself, himself, itself

ourselves yourselves themselves



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Reflexive Pronouns•

A reflexive pronoun refers to thesubject and directs the action of theverb back to the subject. Reflexive

pronouns are necessary(important) to the meaning of asentence.

Example: The Carson family tried to liftthemselves out of poverty.

Is reflected by



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Intensive Pronouns

• An intensive pronoun emphasizes anoun or another pronoun within thesame sentence. Intensive

pronouns are not necessary tothe meaning of the sentence.

Example:

You yourself have overcome manyhardships.

Dr. Carson himself has survived greatovert .



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AVOID THE FOLLOWING

• There are no hisself, herselves ortheirselves, themselfs. They aregrammatically incorrect.



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Interrogatives andDemonstratives

• An interrogative pronoun is used tointroduce a question. Theinterrogative pronouns are:

who, whom, what, whose

•

A demonstrative pronoun points outa person, place, thing or idea. Theyare:

that, this, those, these



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Interrogative Pronouns

• Who is always used as a subject orpredicate pronoun.

Example:Subject – Who called the powercompany?

Predicate pronoun – The electrician iswho?

• Whom is always used as an object.

Example:



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Watch OUT

• Don’t confuse whose with who’s.Who’s is a contraction that meanswho is. (Who’s missing?) Whose is an

interrogative pronoun. (Whose bookis gone?)



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Demonstrative Pronouns

• This and these point out people orthings that are near, or here.

•

That and those point out people orthings that are far away, or there.

This and that are used for singular

subjects. These and those are for plural.

Example:

That is a circuit breaker. (Far and



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Pronoun-AntecedentAgreement

• The antecedent is the noun orpronoun that a pronoun replaces orrefers to. (The antecedent and the pronoun can be in

the same sentence or in different sentences.)

Example: is referred by

The Hopi people made their homes in the

desert.antecendent pronoun

is referred by

The Hopi settled what is now Arizona.



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TAKE NOTE

• Pronouns must agree with theirantecedents in number, person, andgender.

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 thesame sentence or paragraph.



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TAKE NOTE

• The gender of a pronoun must be thesame as the gender of itsantecedent. Personal pronouns have 3 gender

forms: masculine (he, his, him), feminine (she, her,hers), and neuter (it, its)

masculine pronoun for a maleantecedent

Derrick Davis performs his hoop dances.

feminine pronoun for a femaleantecedent

Laurel Mansfield teachers her students at



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TAKE NOTE

• Don’t use only masculine or onlyfeminine pronouns when you meanto 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 sentencemore accurate.

1. Use the phrase his or her.

Each dancer has his or her favoritemoves.



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Indefinite - PronounAgreement

• An indefinite pronoun does not referto a specific person, place, thing oridea. (Indefinite pronouns often do not have

antecedents.)

Nothing lasts forever.

Anyone can make a time capsule.

• Some indefinite pronouns are alwayssingular, some are always plural, andsome can either be plural or singular.



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Indefinite Pronouns

Singular Plural Singular or Plural

another muchanybody neitheranyone nobodyanything no oneeach nothingeither noneeverybody somebodyeveryone someoneeverything something

bothfewmanyseveral

allanymostnonesome

PRONOUNS CONTAINING one, thing, or body ARE ALWAYSSINGULAR



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TAKE NOTE

• USE a singular personal pronoun torefer to a singular indefinite pronoun.

is referred by

Everyone added his or her favoriteitem to the capsule. (Everyone could be male

or female.)

One of the girls put her soccer ball in thebox.



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TAKE NOTE

• USE a plural personal pronoun torefer to a plural indefinite pronoun.

is referred by

Many contributed to their favorite CDs orvideo games.

Few realized that their electronics maybecome completely outdated.



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TAKE NOTE

• SOME indefinite pronouns can besingular or plural. (The phrase that follows the

indefinite pronoun will often tell you whether it is singular orplural.)

singular noun

Some of the time capsule looks like it is veryold.

Singular indefinite pronoun singular personal pronoun

plural noun

Some of the time capsules list their contentsoutside.



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WORK for the DAY

• Do Practice and Apply, CONCEPTCHECK (Language Network) pages69, 72, 75, and 78. Do numbers 4-10

only.

• Write your answers in your LanguageArts notebook. (If you don’t have itwith you, write it in a sheet of paperand paste it in your notebook when

you come back to school )

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