Her lessons are guaranteed to give you more confidence in your communication skills and make you smile. Back to Word Lists. All Rights Reserved. Grammar Revolution. Here's a list of pronouns! Home Word Lists List of Pronouns. The tables below show a list of pronouns for the following types of pronouns: personal, relative, demonstrative, indefinite, reflexive, intensive, interrogative, possessive, subject and object.
We don't need to say Emma and then Emma again. So, what a pronoun does is it allows you to take out the unnecessary noun when we're very certain we know what we're talking about. So you don't have to say Emma a million times, you can replace Emma with her.
Same thing applies to the second two sentences. We don't have to keep on mentioning Zach and the log when we know what we're talking about. So the first sentence would still read Zach lifted the log, but then in the second sentence we can replace the name Zach, since we already know who we're talking about, with the word he, and we can replace this little phrase, the log, with it, since we know we're talking about the log.
Now, words like her and he and it are all pronouns. So, what are pronouns? Exception 2: When each follows a noun or pronoun in certain sentences, even experienced writers sometimes get tripped up:.
Incorrect: The women each gave her approval. Correct: The women each gave their approval. Incorrect: The words are and there each ends with a silent vowel. Correct: The words are and there each end with a silent vowel. These examples do not contradict Rule 6, because each is not the subject, but rather an adjunct describing the true subject.
Rule 7. To decide whether to use the subject or object pronoun after the words than or as , mentally complete the sentence. If we mentally complete the sentence, we would say Tranh is as smart as she is. Therefore, she is the correct answer. Mentally completing the sentence, we have Zoe is taller than I am. We can interpret this sentence in two ways: Daniel would rather talk to her than to me. OR Daniel would rather talk to her than I would. A sentence's meaning can change considerably, depending on the pronoun you choose.
Rule 8. The possessive pronouns yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs, and whose never need apostrophes. Avoid mistakes like her's and your's. Rule 9. The only time it's has an apostrophe is when it is a contraction for it is or it has.
The only time who's has an apostrophe is when it means who is or who has. There is no apostrophe in oneself. Avoid "one's self," a common error. Examples: It's been a cold morning. The thermometer reached its highest reading. He's the one who's always on time. He's the one whose wife is always on time. Keeping oneself ready is important. Rule Pronouns that end in -self or -selves are called reflexive pronouns. There are nine reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, oneself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves.
Reflexive pronouns are used when both the subject and the object of a verb are the same person or thing. Reflexive pronouns help avoid confusion and nonsense. Without them, we might be stuck with sentences like Joe helped Joe. The object myself is the same person as the subject I , performing the act of working.
Incorrect: My brother and myself did it. Correct: My brother and I did it. Don't use myself unless the pronoun I or me precedes it in the sentence. Incorrect: Please give it to John or myself. Correct: Please give it to John or me. Correct: You saw me being myself. For more information, see the TIP sheet "Adjectives. Possessive Pronouns Possessive pronouns replace possessive nouns. Thus, Jamie's Corvette becomes her Corvette.
Possessive pronouns never take apostrophes. In the table above, the words in the upper row must accompany nouns: her Corvette, our Nissan. Reflexive pronouns Reflexive pronouns add emphasis. They always follow a noun or personal pronoun and do not appear alone in a sentence: " Jamie herself changed the tire. Reflexive pronouns also show that someone did something to himself or herself: "She surprised herself with how well she did on the test.
A reflexive pronoun cannot replace the subject of a sentence, such as in "Burcu and myself are taking that class together. There is no theirself or theirselves.
Relative pronouns A relative pronoun begins a clause that refers to a noun in a sentence. A clause is a word group with its own subject and verb. Who begins a clause that refers to people: "Krista is the math tutor who helped me the most. Who is a subject pronoun; it can be the subject of a sentence: " Who was at the door? It cannot be the subject of a sentence, but it can be a direct or indirect object or the object of a preposition: "Don't ask for whom the bell tolls.
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