- Yriá SantiestebanPronouns Types
There are Different Types of Pronouns:
Demonstrative Pronouns - point out a specific persons, animals, places, things or ideas.
Personal Pronouns - stand in for people, places, things and ideas.
...Indefinite Pronouns – replace nouns without specifying which noun they replace.
Intensive Pronouns - emphasize (intensify) a noun or another pronoun.
Interrogative Pronouns – used to begin or introduce interrogative sentences.
Reciprocal Pronouns - show a mutual relationship.
Reflexive Pronouns – point back to the subject of the sentence.
Relative Pronouns-begin a subordinate clause and connect it to another noun that precedes it.Ver másHace 22 horas · - Yriá SantiestebanList of Indefinite pronouns
Singular: another, anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, little, much, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one, other, somebody, someone, something
Plural: both, few, many, others, ... several
Singular or plural: all, any, more, most, none, someVer másHace 22 horas · - Yriá Santiesteban Intensive pronouns (also called emphatic) end with self or selves and emphasize (intensify) a noun or another pronoun.
They make you notice the nouns and pronouns they go with.Hace 22 horas · - Yriá SantiestebanReciprocal Pronouns show a mutual relationship. They are each other and one another.
Each other is used when the group consists of just two people, animals or things.
One another is used when the groups consists of more than two people, anima ...ls ot things.
# Examples John and Bob respect each other.
# We are commanded to love one another.Ver másHace 22 horas · - Yriá SantiestebanReflexive pronouns are the same as intensive pronouns (see above) but they don’t intensify; they point back to the subject of the sentence.
# He wanted to kick himself for even making that stupid comment.
# I bought myself a new shirt.
...Reflexive and intensive pronouns turn the action of the verb back to the subject of the sentence.
Never use a reflexive/intensive pronoun in place of a personal pronoun. They are correctly used only in reflexive or intensive roles.Ver másHace 22 horas · - Yriá Santiesteban Relative Pronoun begins a subordinate clause and connects that clause to another noun that precedes it in the sentence. Relative pronouns list: who, whom, whose, whoever, whomever, which, whichever, that, what, whatever.Hace 22 horas ·
- Yriá SantiestebanDemonstrative Pronouns point out a specific persons, animals, places, things or ideas.
List of Demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, those
# That is his book.
# I want to exchange this for that and these for those.
...# This is an excellent question.Ver másHace 22 horas · - Yriá SantiestebanIn order to use personal pronouns, it is important to know about case (subject, object, and possessive), number (singular and plural), person (first, second, and third), and gender (male, female and neutral).
# Subject Pronouns: I, you, she, ... he, it, we, they are used as a subject or predicate noun. She is a teacher.
# It was he who said that.
# Object Pronouns: me, you, him, her, them, us, it are used as an indirect object, direct object, or object of a preposition. She baked him a pie.
# I can hardly see it.
# They are going with us.
# Possessive Pronouns: mine, yours, his, hers, theirs, ours, its take the place of possessive nouns. If this isn’t ours, it must be theirs.
# Yours is much better then mine.
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Hola!!
Permiteme presentarme soy Melannie, administradora de un directorio de blogs, visité tu sitio y está genial,
me encantaría poner un link de tu blog en mi sitio web y así mis visitas puedan visitarlo tambien.
Si estas de acuerdo no dudes en escribirme
Exitos con tu blog.
Un Saludo
Melannie
Por alguna razón no puedo ver tu mail, claro que puedes poner un link.Gracias!
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