Parts of Speech

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Parts of Speech

• Pronouns

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Basic Definition

• A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a
  noun or another pronoun.
• Most pronouns have an antecedent
• An antecedent is the word the pronoun replaced
• Ex Ray said he wanted musical talents to
  audition for the play
• Pronoun He
• Antecedent Ray

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Antecedents

• Antecedents can be more than one word, and can
  even be in a different sentence!
• Ex Chad and I auditioned together. We both got
  lead parts.
• Whats the pronoun?
• Whats the antecedent?

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Possessive Pronouns

• Show ownership or relationship
• Ex Sonia delivered her famous monologue

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Pronouns

• Singular Plural
• 1st person I, me we, us
• (my, mine) (our, ours)
• 2nd person you you
• (your, yours) (your, yours)
• 3rd person he, him, she, her, it they, them
• (his, her, hers, its) (their,
  theirs)

Possessive Pronouns are in parenthesis
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Other types of pronouns

• Intensive pronoun adds emphasis to a noun or
  pronoun in the same sentence.
• Ex The wait itself would take hours.
• Reflexive pronoun reflects action back to the
  subject of the sentence and adds information to
  the sentence
• Ex Donna prepared herself for a long day.

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Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns

• First person Second Person Third Person
• Singular myself yourself himself
• herself
• itself
• Plural ourselves
  yourselves themselves

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Demonstrative Pronouns

• Point out specific persons, places, things or
  ideas.
• Demonstrative pronouns are
• This, these, that, those

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Indefinite Pronouns

• Does not refer to a specific PPTI
• See list on page 12- write in notes

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Other Types of Pronouns Cont

• Relative Pronouns
• Used to introduce a clause
• Who whom, whose, which, that
• Interrogative Pronouns
• Used to ask a question
• Who, whom, whose, which, what

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Ready to practice?

• Any questions?
• Turn to page 10. Then well do page 13.
• Homework page 584 1-5 and page 585 1-5.