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PRONOUNS

BEL120
Prepared by: Norshazrina
Sabri

TYPES OF PRONOUNS
Personal pronouns
Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns
Relative pronouns
Possessive pronouns
Indefinite pronouns

1. PERSONAL PRONOUNS
Refer to people
It is also a personal pronoun even though it does
not usually refer to a person
Eg:
He knows how to drive a car.
They are leaving for Kuching.
She is my sister.

EXERCISE 1
1) He/Him is hiding under the house.
2) I would like to see they/them now.
3) Does she/her know that she is being
cheated?
4) They/Them are playing on the field.
5) His/He cannot lift up that box.

2. REFLEXIVE AND RECIPROCAL


PRONOUNS
We use reflexive pronoun when the action of
the doer goes back to himself
The subject of the sentence is the same
person as the object
Eg:
He cut himself while shaving.
They blamed themselves for the
accident.
She did the work herself.

Cont.
Reflexive case
Reflexive
pronouns
First person
Second person
Third person

Singular

Plural

myself
yourself
himself
herself
Itself

ourselves
yourselves
themselves
themselves
themselves

Cont.
Reciprocal pronouns
are used when the subject and object of a
sentence refer to the same people, and these
people have a two-way relationship
eg: 1) Tom and Sarah met each other at
work. (Tom met Sara, Sara met Tom)
2) Fred and Jane blamed each other.
(Fred blamed Jane, and Jane blamed Fred.)

Cont.
have possessive forms: each others, one
anothers
eg: Tom and Sarah took each others
telephone number. (Tom took Saras phone
number, and Sara took Toms.)

EXERCISE 2
1)
2)
3)
4)

We can do this by ourself/ourselves.


I did the presentation _______.
He _______ cannot solve the problem.
I went to see for _______ what the college
was like.
5) He wanted to see the place for_______.
6) You should try it _________.

Cont.
7) Since we are away from our parents, we have
to take care of each (other/ each others).
8) I think we should take (each other/ each
others) email address.

3. RELATIVE PRONOUNS
Take the place of nouns and pronouns
Used to join two sentences about the same
person or thing
Eg:
Dr Aiman Abdul Rahim, whose reputation is
well-known across the nation, is from Mersing.
Dr Aiman is from Mersing. His reputation
is well-known across the nation.

Cont..
The man who drew that picture is an artist.
The man is an artist. He drew that picture.

This is the camera which he bought.


He bought a camera. This is it.

EXERCISE 3
1) Sabrina is a doctor.
She has a big house.
2) The car is new.
It is mine.
3) Adrianna bought a handbag ______ costs
her RM400.
4) I went to the building _______ his office is
located.

4. POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
Are used to indicate ownership
To show possession
Eg:
1)Take all those that are yours and
dont touch anything that are mine.
2) Dont borrow the books that are
hers; read those that are ours.

Cont.
Possessive case
First person
Second person
Third person

Singular
Mine
Yours
His
Hers
Its

Plural
Ours
Yours
Theirs
Theirs
Theirs

Cont.
Possessive adjectives
The pronoun in a sentence acts as an adjective
Eg:
1) This is her house.
2) This is my pen.
3) This is our house.
4) This is their house.

EXERCISE 4
She was walking back to _____1 (her/hers) house when
she heard the sound f a car behind her. It sounded familiar.

Wasnt it ____ 2 (hers/her)? Why was _____ 3 (her/hers) car


not in ____ 4 (it/ its) usual place under the tree?
She turned around. It was indeed _____ 5 (her/hers) car.

But there were two men driving it. Who were they?
Stop! she shouted. Thats _____ 6 (my/mine) car!
No, it isnt, they laughed. Its _____ 7 (ours/our). How
could it be ______ 8 (their/theirs), she wondered. It had
______ 9 (her/hers) licence plates. It was ______ 10
(her/hers) car. The men had stolen it!

5. INDEFINITE PRONOUNS
Sometimes we may want to talk about people
or things, but we may not know who or what
they are.
We then use one of the following pronouns

Cont.
For PEOPLE:
anybody
anyone

everybody

nobody

everyone

no one

somebody
someone

Eg:
1)Everyone wants to get an A for this course.
2) Nobody wants to fail this subject.
3) Someone has repaired the computer.

Cont.
For THINGS:
anything

everything

nothing

something

Eg:
1) Is there anything in that jar?
2) I have something to tell you.
3) Everything is going wrong for him today.

EXERCISE 5
We never know when ______ 1(somebody/anything)
will come knocking on our door to ask us to leave this place.
______ 2 (Everybody/Someone) knows that we cannot
afford to live here much longer. We have not paid our rent
for three months. There is _______ 3 (anything/nothing) to
eat in the house and _______ 4 (everyone/ everything)
which can go wrong has gone wrong. _______ 5 (Someone/
Something) should notice our problem, but ______ 6
(anyone/no one) has and _______ 7 (no one/nothing) will.
Can ______ 8 (anyone/anything) do _______ 9
(anyone/anything)?

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