PRONOUNS
DEFINITIONS
A pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun. You use pronouns like "he," "which," "none," and "you" to make your sentences less difficult and less repetitive.
Types of pronouns:
- Personal pronouns
- Demonstrative pronouns
- Interrogative pronouns
- Indefinite pronouns
- Relative pronouns
- Reflexive pronouns
- Intensive pronouns
PERSONAL PRONOUNS
SUBJECTIVE PERSONAL PRONOUNS
• To replace nouns as the subjects of sentenses
• Subject pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, they)
• Example:
We will meet at the library at 3.00 p.m.
OBJECTIVE PERSONAL PRONOUNS
• To replace nouns as the objects of verbs and prepositions
• Object pronouns(me, you, her, him, it, us, them)
• Example:
Lisa and Evan will meet us at the newest café in the market.
POSSESSIVE PERSONAL PRONOUNS
• To replace nouns to show possession and defines who owns a particular object or person
• Possessive pronouns (mine, yours, his, hers, its, theirs, ours)
• Example:
The smallest gift is mine.
DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS
• Demonstrative pronouns points to and identifies a noun or a pronoun.
• “This” and “These” refers to things that are nearby either in space or in time.
• “That” and “Those” refers to things that are farther away in space or time.
• Example:
This is nice; that is the tree I want.
INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS
• To replace nouns used to ask questions.
• Interrogative pronouns (who, whom, which, what, whoever, whomever, whichever, whatever)
• Example:
Who wrote the novel Rockbound?
RELATIVE PRONOUNS
• To replace nouns used to link one phrase or clause to another phrase or clause.
• "who" and "whoever" to refer to the subject of a clause or sentence
• "whom" and "whomever" to refer to the objects of a verb, a verbal or a preposition.
• Example:
You may invite whomever you like to the party.
INDEFINITE PRONOUNS
• Refers to an identifiable but not specified person or thing.
• An indefinite pronoun conveys the idea of all, any, none, or some.
• The most common indefinite pronouns are "all," "another," "any," "anybody," "anyone," "anything," "each," "everybody," "everyone," "everything," "few," "many," "nobody," "none," "one," "several," "some," "somebody," and "someone."
• Example:
We donated everything we found in the attic to the woman's shelter garage sale.
REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS
• To replace nouns to replace an object which refers to the subject.
• The reflexive pronouns are "myself," "yourself," "herself," "himself," "itself," "ourselves," "yourselves," and "themselves."
• Example:
Although the landlord promised to paint the apartment, we ended up doing it ourselves.
INTENSIVE PRONOUNS
• Intensive pronouns used to emphasise its antecedent.
• Intensive pronouns are identical in form to reflexive pronouns.
• Example:
Next, our group presentation is about determiners. Sound weird, right ? Never heard about it, don't you ? LOL ;)
DETERMINERS
- Help to identify things and used to show quantity.
- Determiners are words like a, the, my, this, some,either, every,enough etc.
- But they are NOT ADJECTIVES even though they come at the beginning of noun phrases.
The earth
My sister
Either solution
Each boy
This month
- There are 2 main groups of determiners :
a) Group A determiners
b) Group B determiners
Group A determiners
• Help to identify things. Examples are :
Articles : a/an, the
Possessive : my, your, his, her, its, our, your, their,
one’s, whose
Demonstratives : this, these, that, those
Note that two Group A determiners cannot be put together. We can say the cat, my cat or this cat, but not the my cat, or my this cat.
Group B determiners
• Most Group B determiners are quantifiers. Examples are :
Some, any,no
Each, every, either, neither
Much, many, more, most ; a little, less, least; a few, fewer, fewest;
enough, several
All, both, half
What, whatever, which, whichever
One, two, three etc.
• Some Group B determiners are used with singular nouns. Examples are : each, every, either, neither etc.
• Some Group B determiners are used with plural nouns. Example : many
• Some are used with uncountable nouns. Example : much
Many people are unable to control their temper. James is one of them. Due to this, he has very few friends. He has to attend several courses on temper management to improve himself.
• Two Group B determiners can be put together if the combination makes sense. Examples :
Buses leave every ten minutes.
Have you got any more rice ?
• There are also some Group B determiners which can be used with more than one kind of noun. Example : which
• Group B determiners can be used directly before nouns, without of.
Has he got any of friends ?
Has he got any friends ?
Most of people like babies.
Most people like babies.
We give rewards to each of the volunteers and give extra rewards to those who answer our quizzes correctly. Congratulation to the winners. Saeng-il-chugha (congratulations in Korea language)
Night class
During the night class, it' all about reading part. We have to interpret the meaning of the poem entitled "Jabberwocky" eventhough it uses classical english. It has implicit and explicit meaning of it. We need to find the content of it using the contextual clues.
Additional information :
While talking with the White King and White Queen (chess pieces), she finds a book written in a strange language that she can't read. Understanding that she is travelling in an inverted world, she sees it is mirror-writing. She finds a mirror and holds it up to a poem on one of the pages, to read out the reflection of "Jabberwocky". She finds it as puzzling as the odd land she has walked into, which we later discover is a dreamscape. It is considered to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language. The playful, whimsical poem became a source of nonsense words and neologisms such as "galumphing", "chortle", and "Jabberwocky" itself.
Then, we learn about skimming and scanning.
Skimming - Process of quickly identfying the main ideas within a passage to get an overall impression of its content.
Scanning - A reading skill used to find specific information quickly. It involves moving your eyes quickly down the page seeking specific words and phrases.
"Learning about Jabberwocky is like learning in a literature class"
