8 Types of Pronouns
A pronoun that refers to a specific person, group of people, or thing.
For example: He, she, it, them, I, me, we
He likes to bake chocolate cupcakes because it makes him happy.
What is personal pronoun?
Many times my younger brothers can help, but they also can annoy me.
What is brothers?
It was supposed to be an ordinary school day as Jennifer's alarm clock went off. At 5 a.m. precisely, _____ buzzed with a loud, annoying sound.
What is it?
Unlike me, Mom has glossy red hair that bounces around and might obstruct America’s view of her small freckled face.
Define obstruct.
To block or shut out from view
(noun) a round spout at the end of a hose used to control a jet of liquid
So after dinner we hid our spare key inside the _______ of the dusty, folded-up fire hose in the stairwell.
Name the vocabulary word.
Nozzle
A pronoun that is used when you are asking a question.
Examples: Who, whom, which, what, whatever
Who is your ELA teacher this year?
What is interrogative pronoun?
Please turn it down because the volume is too loud.
What is volume?
Complete the sentence with the correct interrogative pronoun.
_____ is bringing the dessert to the party?
What is who?
(Verb): To write in a hurried, careless way.
And then there's the date she's supposed to show up, _______ in blue pen on a line at the bottom of the card: April 27, 1979.
Name the vocabulary word.
Scrawl or scrawled
Now she's a paralegal, except she works at a really small law office where she has to be the receptionist and the secretary too.
Define paralegal.
A person with specialized training that assists lawyers.
A pronoun that demonstrates ownership.
Examples: mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs, whose
Those borrowed pants are mine.
What is possessive pronoun?
Those pennies are ours, and we save them in the milk jug.
What is pennies?
Complete the sentence with the correct demonstrative pronoun.
________ used to belong to my grandpa.
What is this?
Or
What is that?
April twenty-seventh is also Richard's birthday. Mom wonders if that's a good omen.
Define omen.
A sign of a thing about to happen.
Noun: an official conducting criminal cases on behalf of the state
Robbie B's dad is a ____________.
Name the vocabulary word.
Prosecutor
A reflexive pronoun is used with another noun or pronoun when something does something to itself.
Examples: pronouns that in "self" or "selves"
Such as: myself, himself, themselves, itself
Intensive pronouns focus the attention on the nouns that they are replacing. They are used to emphasize a noun or a pronoun. They come directly after the noun (antecedent) or pronoun they are emphasizing.
Examples: pronouns that in "self" or selves"
Such as: myself, himself, themselves, itself
Read the below sentence. Identify the underlined pronoun as either an intensive or a reflexive pronoun.
I myself am sick of this inclement weather.
What is intensive?
The car that I drive is blue.
What is car?
Complete the sentence with the correct relative pronoun.
The student ______ aced the test studied very hard.
What is who?
(Adjective): Forming a necessary base or core; of central importance.
After school junk food is another ________ right of a latchkey child.
Name the vocabulary word.
Fundamental
When she finally got there, Mom hugged Belle and told her, "I owe you," like I was some repulsive burden instead of the person who had very helpfully unpacked three boxes of green bananas and scoured the refrigerated section for expired dairy items.
Define scour(ed).
To move rapidly in a particular direction, especially in search of someone or something
A pronoun that refers to things or people in general.
Examples: few, everyone, all, anything, nobody, some
I do not have any game tokens left.
What is indefinite pronoun?
I myself am going to finish this project tonight.
What is I?
Complete the sentence with the correct reflexive pronoun.
The children were able to dress _________.
What is themselves?
While she listened, Belle made me a turkey sandwich and gave me about ten chewable vitamin Cs because she thought I sounded nasal.
Use the vocabulary word nasal (adjective) in an original sentence. Be sure to provide context clues to show that you understand what the word means.
Example response: When my allergies are really bad, I sound nasal because I'm so stuffed up.
Definition: (adjective) sounding as if the nose was pinched
When she finally got there, Mom hugged Belle and told her, "I owe you," like I was some repulsive burden instead of the person who had very helpfully unpacked three boxes of green bananas and scoured the refrigerated section for expired dairy items.
Use the vocabulary word repulsive (adjective) in an original sentence. Be sure to provide context clues to show that you understand what the word means.
Example response: I can't stomach mushrooms; they are repulsive.
Definition: intense distaste or disgust