{"id":74211,"date":"2020-04-22T06:38:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74211"},"modified":"2024-07-22T07:52:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T07:52:49","slug":"pronouns-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/pronouns-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pronouns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Pronouns<\/strong> are words used to avoid the repetition of words. They make your writing more interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compare the two sentences given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Rahul invited Rahul&#8217;s friends to Rahul&#8217;s party. Rahul&#8217;s friends all came.<\/li><li>Rahul invited <strong>his<\/strong> friends to <strong>his<\/strong> party. <strong>They<\/strong> all came. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Both sentences mean the same; however, the second sentence sounds much much better than the first one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several different kinds of pronouns. Some of them are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Personal pronouns &#8211; I, we, he, she, they, you, it<\/li><li>Possessive pronouns &#8211; mine, ours, his, hers, theirs, yours, its<\/li><li>Demonstrative pronouns &#8211; this, that, these and those<\/li><li>Distributive pronouns &#8211; each, every, either and neither<\/li><li>Reflexive \/ Emphatic pronouns &#8211; myself, himself, herself, itself etc.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that many of these words can also be used as adjectives. When they are adjectives, they are followed by nouns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>This<\/strong> is my bag. (Here the demonstrative pronoun this is the subject. It stands alone.)<\/li><li><strong>This bag<\/strong> is mine. (Here the demonstrative adjective this goes before the noun bag.)<\/li><li>That is <strong>my <\/strong>cat. (Here the possessive adjective my goes before the noun cat.)<\/li><li>That cat is <strong>mine<\/strong>. (Here the possessive pronoun mine stands alone.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pronouns worksheet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Fill in the blanks with an appropriate pronoun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; painted the walls. <\/li><li>She doesn&#8217;t know what &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. (she \/ her) is doing.<\/li><li>He patted &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. on the back. (him \/ himself)<\/li><li>Do you know where &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. (they \/ them) have gone?<\/li><li>Why don&#8217;t you listen to &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..? (I \/ me)<\/li><li>I have great admiration for &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; (she \/ her)<\/li><li>He helped &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. (him \/ himself) to another serving. <\/li><li>We should love &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; (us \/ each other \/ one another)<\/li><li>You had better not get into a fight with &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; (they \/ them)<\/li><li>If that is your pen where is &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; (me \/ my \/ mine)?<\/li><li>How long do &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; (we \/ us) have to wait for &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..(they \/ them)?<\/li><li>Why is &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; (she \/ her) late?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>myself, 2. she, 3. himself, 4. they, 5. me, 6. her, 7. himself, 8. each other \/ one another, 9. them, 10. mine, 11. we, them, 12. she<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pronouns are words used to avoid the repetition of words. They make your writing more interesting. Compare the two sentences given below. Rahul invited Rahul&#8217;s friends to Rahul&#8217;s party. Rahul&#8217;s friends all came. Rahul&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[901,836],"class_list":["post-74211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-pronoun","tag-pronouns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77855,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74211\/revisions\/77855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}