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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