Pronouns 1
What is a pronoun?
A word that takes the place of a noun
What is a noun?
A person, place, thing, or idea.
You, your, and yours are examples of what type of pronoun?
Second-person personal pronouns
This type of noun names a nonspecific person, place, thing, or idea and does not use a capital letter
Common
What are the four demonstrative pronouns?
This, that, these, those
What is an antecedent?
The word that the pronoun takes the place of
What is a proper noun?
A noun that names a particular person, place, thing, or idea and uses a capital letter
Gary's mom asked _____ to clean the garage.
What pronoun would you use to complete the sentence?
Him
Family is an example of what type of noun?
Collective
I and me are examples of what type of pronoun?
Identify the possessive pronoun in the following sentence:
My sister is the coolest person on the planet.
My
This type of noun identifies something that can be seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted. It is a
Concrete
She, her, hers, he, him, his, it, its, they, them, and theirs are examples of what type of pronoun?
Third-person personal pronouns
Anxiety, annoyance, childhood, and education are examples of what types of nouns?
Abstract
What are the four interrogative pronouns?
Who, whom, whose, which
Identify the demonstrative pronoun in the sentence: My shoes are on that rug.
That
I really enjoy my team.
What time of noun is the italicized word?
Collective
What is added to make a pronoun reflexive?
Self or selves
Pride (emotion) and pride (lions) are examples of what types of nouns?
Abstract and collective
What sort of pronoun are the words "everyone" and "someone"?
Indefinite
Identify the pronouns (and what type of pronoun they are) in the following sentence:
I want to go to the game by myself.
I (personal), myself (reflexive)
Identify the abstract noun in the following sentence:
Claire and Lori have enjoyed a 50-year friendship
Friendship
Who did you go to the game with?
Who is an example of what type of pronoun?
Interrogative
Joe's is an example of what type of noun?
Singular possessive
What types of pronouns are he, she, and you?
Personal