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PronounGrammarUnit5

DeterminerWhatcanadeterminerdo?CollocationwithnounsCombinationofdeterminersTypesofarticlesFunctionofarticles

Whatisapronoun?Pro-formsareoftenusedtorepresentotherelementsbyreferringtothem.Apronounisapro-formwhichfunctionslikeanounandsubstitutesforanounornounphrase.Pronounsusuallyrefertootherwords,whicharecalledantecedentsbecausethey(should)comebeforethepronoun.Apronounsantecedentmaybeeitheranounoranotherpronoun.

However,wemustbeclearastowhattheantecedentis.e.g.?CatherinetoldRuththatshewouldtakeJerrytothebarndance.Apronounshouldhaveonlyonepossibleantecedent.Ifthereismorethanonepossibleantecedentforapronouninasentence,makesurethatthepronounrefersonlytooneofthemclearly.e.g.?JerrycalledStevetwelvetimeswhilehewasinParis.

Typesofpronounsobjectivecasesubjectivecasewe,you,theyI,you,she,he,itpersonalpronounme,you,him,her,itsingularus,you,thempluralnominaldeterminativeour,your,theirmy,your,his,her,itsgenitive(possessive)pronounmine,yours,his,hersours,yours,theirs

some,any,one,someone,something,anything,everyone,all,both,little,few,each,other,much,most,anybody,many,another,everything,noone,etc.indefinitepronounoneanothereachotherreciprocalpronounthis,thatmyself,yourself,himself,herself,itselfsingularourselves,yourselves,themselvesreflexivepronounthese,thosedemonstrativepronounplural

who,whom,whose,what,which,that,aswho,whom,whose,what,whichwho,whom,whose,what,which,whatever,whichever,whoever,whomeverconjunctivepronounrelativepronouninterrogativepronoun

AgreementPronounshouldagreewithwhatitrefersto.numbergenderperson

Casesubjectivecaseobjectivecasegenitivecase(possessivecase)subjectivecasevs.objectivecaseobjectivecasevs.possessivecase

PronounreferenceThemeaningofapronoundoesnotexistbyitself,peopleshould