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Indefinite pronouns

Does not refer to any specific person, thing or amount. It is


vague and "not definite". Some typical indefinite pronouns
are:

all
another
any
anybody/anyone

few

many
nobody
none
several

anything,
each
everybody
everyone
everything

Examples of the usage of indefinite


pronouns in sentence
Eachof the studentshasa
notebook.
I met two boys.Onehasgiven
meherphone number.

Possesive pronouns
We use possessive pronouns to refer to a specific
person/people or thing/things (the "antecedent") belonging
to a person/people (and sometimes belonging to an
animal/animals or thing/things). some examples of
possesive pronouns are:

mine
yours
theirs
ours
hers
his
its

Examples of usage of possesive


pronouns in sentences;

This pencil is mine


That pencil is yours
This shirt is his/hers
These pencil are theirs
The cat is protecting its kitten
This classroom is ours

Reflexive pronoun
Reflexive pronoun is used as adirect objectwhen
theobjectis thesameas thesubjectof the verb,
for example;
I taught myself how to swim.
Be careful when you are in love. You might hurt
yourself.

Some verbschange their meaningslightly when


they have a reflexive pronoun as direct object, for
example;
Would you like to help yourself to another cake?,
which has the same meaning as "Would you like to
take another cake?" or
I wish the children would behave themselves
as in " I wish the children would behave well."

Distributive
Refer to persons or things one at a time. A distributive
pronoun is always singular and as such it should be
followed by a singular noun and verb.

Each new day isdifferent. (NOT Each new days are


different.)

Either girlcan do that. (NOT Either girls can do that.)


Neither answer iscorrect. (NOT Neither answers is
correct.) (NOT Neither answers are correct.)

Relative pronoun
Relative pronouns refer to somebody or something that has
been mentioned earlier, and at the same time they join
clauses together.
The clause introduced by a relative pronoun is the relative
clause.
(clause)
(clause)
I talked to the salesman. He came yesterday.
I talked to the salesman who came yesterday.

Who and whom is used to refer to


people.
e.g;
That is the woman who/whom I met
yesterday.
Boys who keep long hair will be
punished.
the little boy to whom you gave the
candies is my brother.

Examples of other relative pronouns are;


whose
which
e.g;
children whose parents are
educated tend to be more intelligent
the road which leads to my house is
muddy.

Demonstrative pronouns
Example of demonstrative pronouns are;
this, these (plural)
that, those (plural)

"This/These" refers to something that is close to you or that you


consider to be close to you
"That/Those" refers to something that is not close to you, or that
you do not consider to be close to you.

e.g;
- This is a beautiful notebook.
- That icecream was delicious.
- I brought these here for you.
- What are those?

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