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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.
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)
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.
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.
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)?