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Subject: English A
Section: Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
Topic: Parts of Speech: Pronouns
Objectives: Skill Use pronouns effectively to replace the necessary nouns.
Knowledge Pronouns are used to replace nouns.
Understanding The use of pronouns along with nouns erases monotomy and maintains interest.
Attitude To use pronouns correctly in oral and written work
Content: Pronoun
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun, a group of words acting as a noun, or another pronoun. The
word or group of words to which a pronoun refers is called its antecedent. A pronoun must agree in number and
gender with its antecedent.

Personal and Possessive Pronoun

A personal pronoun refers to a specific person or thing by indicating the person speaking (the first person), the
person being addressed (the second person), or any other person or thing being discussed (the third person).
Personal pronouns also expresses number; they are either singular or plural.
Example
Singular Plural
First person My, me We, us
Second person You You
Third person He, him, she, her, it They, them
A possessive pronoun takes the place of the possessive form of a noun
Singular Plural
First person My, mine Our, ours
Second person Your, yours Your, yours
Third person His, her, hers, its Their, theirs

Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns

Reflexive and intensive pronouns are formed by adding self or selves to certain personal and possessive
pronouns. A reflexive pronoun refers, or reflects back, to a noun or pronoun earlier in the sentence. An intensive
pronoun adds emphasis to another noun or pronoun in the same sentence. Example:
Reflexive You outdid yourself when you wrote that song.
Intensive I myself ate the pizza

Demonstrative Pronouns
A demonstrative pronoun points out specific persons, places, things, or ideas.
Singular This That
Plural These Those
This is your homeroom.
These are your classmates.

Interrogative and Relative Pronouns

An interrogative pronoun is used to form questions.
E.g. Who? Whom? Whose? What? Which?
The interrogative pronouns include the forms whoever, whomever, whichever, and whatever.

A relative pronoun is used to begin a special subject-verb word group called a subordinate clause.
E.g. Who Whom Whose Whoever Whomever Whosoever Which Whichever Whatever That What
Dominoes is a game that many Texans play. [The relative pronoun that begins the subordinate clause that many
Texans play.]

Indefinite Pronouns
An indefinite pronoun refers to persons, places, or things in a more general way than a noun does.
E.g. Everyone needs food.
After two hamburgers he did not want another.
Somebody Everybody Much Most Many Nothing Someone
Nobody All Anyone Several Some No one None
Activities/ Replacing nouns with pronouns in sentences and vice versa.
Materials/ Identifying the nouns that could be changed and underlining them in a paragraph written on the whiteboard. Re-
Strategies: writing the paragraph with appropriate pronouns.
Evaluation: Can students
Replace appropriate pronouns in sentences?
Identify subject pronouns in paragraphs?
Integration: All curriculum areas