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SUPPORT ME ON TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS: Pronouns are words we use instead of nouns. We do this when we don’t want to repeat the same noun over in a sentence or conversation. Before we continue with this video, please take a moment to press the like button to help YouTube recommend this video to more people. Pronouns are words like; I, her, him, his, this, that, or, someone. Let’s look at this sentence. Charlie and his sister Mary enjoy eating their mother’s cooking. Our pronouns are “his”, and “their”. Now let’s remove the pronouns and see what happens. Charlie and Charlie’s sister Mary enjoy eating Charlie and Mary’s mother’s cooking. Did you see what happened? We just added a lot of unnecessary nouns which made the sentence a little complicated. In this lesson we are going to focus on the 7 types of pronouns, they are: • Personal Pronouns • Demonstrative Pronouns • Interrogative Pronouns • Relative Pronouns • Indefinite Pronouns • Reciprocal Pronouns • And finally, Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns That’s a mouth full right? Don’t worry, after this video, it should all start to make sense. Let’s look at personal pronouns first. Personal pronouns are used for a specific person or object. We have three cases within personal pronouns, they are: Subjective case: What, or who the sentence is about Objective case: What, or who is receiving the action in the sentence. Possessive case: Who the object belongs to in the sentence. Let’s look at some examples In the sentence “Can you help me wash her car?” we have an example of all three personal pronouns. The subjective pronoun is ‘you’ because the sentence is about you helping me. The objective pronoun is ‘me’ because the action is ‘help’ and I will be receiving the help. The possessive pronoun is “her”; this is because the car belongs to this person. Demonstrative pronouns are used to show one or more nouns that might be far or near in distance and time. They include the words; Those, these, this, and that. In the sentence “Which ball do you want”, there are many different ways to describe which one you want, or you could just point and say “That one”. See how easy pronouns make our lives? Interrogative pronouns are just question words. We use them to ask questions about the nouns we are referring to. Who, what, where, why, which, these are all examples of interrogative pronouns. Most of these pronouns start with a Wh-. Which ball is yours? Relative pronouns are used to connect clauses together. This is done by referring to a noun from a previous clause. We can use words like; who, which, whom, whose, and that to do this. My friends who are very happy. Indefinite pronouns are used when referring to things that are unspecified. Somebody, anyone, many, nothing, nowhere, these are all indefinite pronouns. Anybody could have done it. Reciprocal pronouns are pronouns we use when a group of nouns are doing the same thing. There are only two reciprocal pronouns and they are; each other, and one another. They gave each other gifts. Reflexive & Intensive pronouns are used when showing a noun that has been used in an earlier part of the sentence. These types of pronouns end with -self, or -selves, and include the words yourself, myself, herself, and himself. A reflexive pronoun is a key part of the sentence and refers to the subject in the sentence. I made coffee for myself. This sentence contains a reflexive pronoun because if I remove the reflexive pronoun, the sentence is incomplete. Intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the sentence. If we remove them from the sentence, the sentence is still complete. This is how we can see the difference between reflexive and intensive pronouns. The man himself came through the door. If we remove the intensive pronoun, the sentence still means the same thing, there is just less emphasis on the subject. That’s it for this lesson! If you made it this far, you should definitely subscribe to see my weekly video. Thank you for all the support and leave a comment to tell me what you thought of this video.
