B.ING X (GRAMMAR PART 2)
*PRONOUN : is a word used as a substitute for a noun. It is divided into seven kinds: Personal Pronoun, Possessive Pronoun, Demonstrative Pronoun, Relative Pronoun, Interrogative Pronoun, Indefinite Pronoun, Emphatic and Reflexive Pronoun.
A. Personal Pronoun is a word that stands for the person speaking, spoken to, or spoken of. It may be the subject or the object of the sentence.
Example: - I have a book (subject) - My father gives me a book (object)
B. POSSESSIVE PRONOUN is the pronoun used to show possession.Example: - The blue pen is mine - Is this key yours?
C. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN is a word that points back some nouns going before, This and That refer to singular, while these and those refer to plural ones.
Example: - This is yours - Those are mine
D. RELATIVE (CONJUNCTIVE) PRONOUN is a word to connect two words or phrases such as; who, whom, that, which, whose.
Example: - I like the person who is diligent. - We saw a film, which was very amusing.
E. INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN is used to ask the question; who, whom, what, which, why, whose.
Example: - Who gave you this letter? - Whose is this pen?
F. Indefinite Pronoun is the pronoun that refer very generally to a person or thing.
1. Indefinite Pronouns of Person or Thing :
someone no one
somebody no body
something nothing
anyone everyone
anybody everybody
anything everything
Example: - Someone sent me a letter
2. Indefinite Pronouns of quantity:
a lot (of) lots (of)
all many
another more
any most
both much
each neither
either none
few other(s)
least plenty
less several
little some
Example: - All of them will die together
G. Emphatic and Reflexive Pronoun has the same form.
Example: - The leader himself wrote the song ( Emphatic Pronoun)
- The boy told himself to work hard



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