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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'.
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Tin Pan Alley was a centralized location for music publishing.
The wrap-up and the clincher sentence
all of the above
"In the sentence below, identify the pronoun and its antecedent?"
In this sentence the pronoun is its.
The antecedent for the possessive adjective its is the noun pronoun.
false (apex)
true
Splicing is not a recording technique. It is an editing technique.
If you mean grammatically correct, then no. "This book can't be checked out of the library" would be acceptable.
decisions about lens focus
Anything not about you would not be appropriate ... the weather, for example.
Richard Nixon
The relative pronouns who, whom, whose, which, that. That's all there is.
Clincher sentence
weather report (apex)
