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☆☆☆☆☆A pronouns is a small word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence. We can use a pronoun instead of a noun. When we use pronouns, we don't have to repeat the same noun every time we refer to it, and pronouns help sentences flow more smoothly and make them easier to say.
Examples:
Mary and John have asked for volunteers to help Mary and John paint Mary and John's house.
OR, using pronouns:
Mary and John have asked for volunteers to help them paint their house.
Sandy got a new puppy. Sandy's new puppy got Sandy's new puppy's paws in the mud and tracked Sandy's new puppy's muddy footprints all over Sandy's kitchen floor.
OR, using pronouns:
Sandy got a new puppy. Her new puppy got his paws in the mud and tracked his muddy footprints all over herkitchen floor.
The kinds of pronouns are:
personal pronouns; I, you, we, he, she, it, me, us, him, her, they, them.
demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, those.
possessive pronouns: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
possessive adjectives: my, your, his, her, their, its.
interrogative pronouns: who, whom, what, which, whose.
reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.
intensive pronouns: reflexive pronouns used to emphasize.
reciprocal pronouns: each other, one another.
relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, that.
indefinite pronouns: all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each, either, enough, everybody, everyone, everything, few, fewer, less, little, many, more, most, much, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, none, one, other, others, several, some, somebody, someone, something, such, and they (people in general).
More example Sentences:
David reads the paper;he reads it every morning.
The pronoun 'he' replaces the noun 'David' and 'it' replaces 'paper'.
The boys didn't make the team and they were very sad.
The pronoun 'they' replaces the noun 'boys'.
Jane sent her mother yellow roses which are herfavorite flowers.
The relative pronoun 'which' replaces the noun 'roses' and the possessive adjective 'her' stands in for the possessive noun 'Jane's'.
He, she, and it are pronouns, not prepositions.
If is not a preposition. It is a conjunction.
No, it is an adjective. The adverb form is hungrily.
Prepositions relate two objects or ideas to each other. In this case, beside is connecting Jacob and Jack, so beside is the preposition.
a noun is a person,place, or thing
60g of fresh breadcrumbs or 115g of dry breadcrumbs
Pecked = Kissed
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence.
Using a pronoun helps to avoid repeating a noun in a sentence.
The main group of pronouns are the personal pronouns.
A personal pronoun takes the place of a noun for a specific person or thing.
The personal pronouns are: I, you, we, he, she, it, me, us, him, her, they, them.
Example uses for personal pronouns:
First person, singular: I saw a job posting that looked right for me.
- The pronouns 'I' and 'me' take the place of a noun (name) of the person speaking.
First person, plural: We waited in the lobby until the car came for us.
- The pronouns 'we' and 'us' take the place of the nouns for the person speaking and one or more other people.
Second person, singular: You did a good job. I'm proud of you.
- The pronoun 'you' takes the place of the noun (name) for the person spoken to.
Second person, plural: Class, you have one hour to finish the test.
- The pronoun 'you' takes the place of the nouns (names) for the people spoken to.
Third person, singular: When George got to 19th Street, he got off the train.
- The pronoun 'he' takes the place of the noun 'George' in the second part of the sentence.
Third person, singular: Dad needs the hammer but can't find it.
- The pronoun 'it' takes the place of the noun 'hammer'.
Third person, plural: The Smiths brought the baby when they came to visit.
- The pronoun 'they' takes the place of the plural noun 'Smiths'.
Third person plural: Some of the eggs broke when I dropped them.
- The pronoun 'them' takes the place of the plural noun 'eggs'.
The word THE is not a noun or a pronoun. The word THE is an article.
- There are three words in English that are called articles: a, an, the.
- The articles are used before a noun to limit or define the noun.
The article THE used before a noun means a specific person, place, or thing.
The article A, used before a noun beginning with a consonant sound, and the article AN used before a noun beginning with a vowel sound means a general person, place or thing.
Examples:
The dog was barking. (refers to a specific dog)
A dog was barking. (refers to some dog not specified)
An animal was barking. (refers to some animal not specified)
It can be an adjective OR a noun, OR a verb form.
The word exiting is the present participle of the verb to exit, and can be a gerund (noun) as in "Exiting the building was the best option." It can be an adjective as in "The exiting voters were polled by the party workers."
Yes, it is. It means very damp or wet (soggy clothes, soggy ground).
Yes, it is. Some other examples of preposition phrases: on, below, at, without, after, and before.
No. It is an adverb. Hunger is a noun.
