Lesson 3 Pronouns: Personal and Possessive; Reflexive and ...

1 Lesson 3 pronouns : Personal and possessive ; Reflexive and IntensiveA pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun, a group of words acting as a noun, oranother pronoun. A Personal pronoun refers to a specific person or thing by indicatingthe person speaking (the first person), the person being addressed (the second person), orany other person or thing being discussed (the third person).SINGULARPLURALF irst personI, mewe, usSecond personyouyouThird personhe, him, she, her, itthey, themA possessive pronoun shows possession or control. It takes the place of a possessive personmy, mineour, oursSecond personyour, yoursyour, yoursThird personhis, her, hers, itstheir, theirs Exercise 1 Underline each Personal pronoun and circle each possessive pronoun. I told her that it was read the story to his younger brought them to the skating rink swim in their pool each day during the dog is begging you to feed lost their video somewhere between the library and my granted us the time we needed to complete the first organized the recycling campaign with their we ask her to join us for lunch?

2 Played Felix in our production of The Odd called them before they left for the snow covered the windshield of his you enjoy their convention as much as we did? wagon creaked under the pressure of its studied their arguments carefully before making our final 1, Parts of Speech51 Copyright by Glencoe/McGraw-HillName _____ Class _____ Date _____GrammarName _____ Class _____ Date _____52 Grammar and Language Workbook, Grade 10 Copyright by wrote them a letter of recommendation about could be mistaken about you don t like yours, you can have some of returned to the football game before it was cannot decide which book she would owes her an apology for his inconsiderate Reflexive pronoun refers to a noun or another pronoun and indicates that the same personor thing is involved. An intensive pronoun adds emphasis to a noun or another surprised himself by breaking the home-run record. ( Reflexive )Leo himself prepared the main course.

3 ( intensive )SINGULARPLURALF irst personmyselfourselvesSecond personyourselfyourselvesThird personhimself, herself, itselfthemselves Exercise 2 Underline each Reflexive pronoun and circle each intensive helped herself by finishing her homework puppy scared itself by watching its yourselves can lead the singing bought himself a computer at the garage myself forgot to bring the voted for the unknown candidate let yourself eat too much composed the music playing in the background will learn the new dance you yourself advance in the standings after the first round of play? allowed themselves plenty of time to reach the himself assured us it would not rain on our train itself seemed to stop promised ourselves we would see that movie Friday have visited Virginia many times yourself. Lesson 4 pronouns : Interrogative and Relative; Demonstrative and IndefiniteAn interrogative pronoun is used to form questions. Interrogative pronouns are who,whom, whose, what, and which.

4 Other forms of the interrogative pronouns are whoever,whomever, whosoever, whatever, and is planning to attend the silent auction?Whatever are the Wilsons going to do with the leftover potato salad?A relative pronoun is used to begin a special subject-verb word group called asubordinate clause (see Lesson 24).The tour guide says this is the invention that changed pronouns whowhomwhatwhichthatwhoeverwhomeverwhate verwhicheverwhose Exercise 1 Underline each interrogative pronoun and circle each relative of these schedules lists the time that the bus to Topeka leaves? caterer who furnished this meal did an excellent happened to common courtesy? will see whichever of the Broadway plays you pianist who played last night gave a magnificent is the passenger whose briefcase was lost? will give the package to whoever answers the s car, which is bright red, is parked across the did you say the biography was about? crawled up your arm? are we hoping to locate?

5 Scuplture did Terence admire at the art exhibit? quilt that Derek and Denise made is an anniversary gift for their Tina purchased the blue silk dress that was displayed in the was decided about the park that borders Silver Lake? me whatever needs to be 1, Parts of Speech53 Copyright by Glencoe/McGraw-HillName _____ Class _____ Date _____GrammarName _____ Class _____ Date _____54 Grammar and Language Workbook, Grade 10 Copyright by Glencoe/McGraw-HillGrammarA demonstrative pronoun points out specific persons, places, things, or was signed by the entire class. SINGULARPLURAL thisthesethatthoseAn indefinite pronoun refers to persons, places, or things in a more general way than anoun decorated the dining room for Corinne s pronouns allbotheverythingnonesomeanothereachfewn othingsomebodyanyeithermanyonesomeoneany bodyenoughmostothersomethinganyoneeveryb odyneitherothersanythingeveryonenobodyse veral Exercise 2 Draw a line under each indefinite pronoun and circle each demonstrative appears to be a game anyone can belong on the shelf next to the mystery gave the public a reason to wants a copy of Taylor Joyce s newest is the key to unlocking the secrets of Ms.

6 Dupont s provoked quite an argument at the meeting last attempt to win the contest, but few actually claim first instructor gave others an opportunity to voice their demonstrated that yesterday when he received his first traffic all the directors, one achieved true greatness with his made signs to show us the way to the these to the laboratory on Clifford certainly tastes delicious on top of a bed of of Gary s time was spent researching the captured our attention as we waited in the incredibly long wishes those would last forever.