Assignment
1. Mention and explain kinds of pronoun, give examples for each kind!
Answer:
A. Personal Pronouns
These are
pronouns that refer mostly to human beings. However, the word 'it' does
not refer to human beings, but is
a Personal Pronoun. So, we have a more grammatical
way of defining Personal Pronouns so that we can include the
hapless it in the Personal Pronoun family. A Personal Pronoun is a
pronoun which belongs to any of the three
grammatical persons. The list of
pronouns which belong to this group are: I, we, you, he, she, it, and they.
The personal pronouns are I,
you, he, she, it, we, they, and who.
More often than not (but not exclusively), they replace nouns representing
people. When most people think of pronouns, it is the personal pronouns that
usually spring to mind.
Examples :
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Is this mine or yours?
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We can't
all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
B. Demonstrative
Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns are used to
show or identify one or a number of nouns that may be far or near in distance
or time. They are only four in number - This, That, These and Those. This and
That are singular demonstrative pronouns and These and Those are plural
demonstrative pronouns. They can also be used to show an unspecified quantity
in a sentence.
That is a
beautiful house. - That is a demonstrative pronoun that is
referring to a specific noun (house). This is a singular pronoun as it is
referring to only one house.
These were made
by me. - These is showing an unspecified quantity of something
that was made by a person. This is a plural demonstrative pronoun as it’s
referring to a number of objects.
Everyone remembers those days.
- Those is showing a particular time or period of days in the
past; it is being used in place of a noun that could be - school, summer,
college, etc. Here also those is a plural demonstrative
pronoun as it’s indicating a number of days.
This is what he
is charging? - This is used as pronoun in place of a number
and it is also acting as a quantifier by referring not only to the noun but to
the amount/number of the noun as well. This is a singular
demonstrative pronoun.
Examples :
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She gave me this gift. (this - Demonstrative
Adjective)
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Those are totally awesome.
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These are my children.
C. Indefinite Pronouns
Unlike demonstrative pronouns,
which point out specific items, indefinite pronouns are used for non-specific
things. This is the largest group of pronouns. All, some, any, several, anyone, nobody, each, both, few, either, none, one and no one are the most common.
When we say, "Somebody
stole my watch," we don't know to whom the word somebody refers to.
The word somebody is an Indefinite
Pronoun.
Examples :
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Nobody was answering when I called them last.
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We are all
in the gutter, but some of us
are looking at the stars
D. Distributive Pronouns
These pronouns refer to individual elements in a
group or a pair, one individual at a
time.
Examples :
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each - "From each according to his ability,
to each according to his need."
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any - You may bring any of your friends.
E. Reciprocal Pronouns
These pronouns are found
in pairs. They are really a subject-object pair compressed. We'll find this if
we expand the sentence in which they are present, as in the first example
below. Reciprocal pronouns are used for actions or feelings that are
reciprocated. The two most common reciprocal pronouns are each other and
one another.
Examples
:
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They talk to each other like they're babies.
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Good people help one another to succeed.
F. Relative Pronous
Relative Pronouns are
used to join or relate two different clauses together by referring to the noun
in the previous clause using the pronouns - Who, Whom,
Whose, Which and That.
Examples
:
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Dr Adam Sissons, who lectured at Cambridge
for more than 12 years, should have known the difference.
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This is the day that we have waited for so long
G. Interrogative pronouns
These pronouns are used in questions. Although they
are classified as pronouns, it is not easy to see how they replace nouns. Who,
which, what, where and how are all interrogative
pronouns.
Examples :
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Which
dog won the race?
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Whose is this wallet?
H. Possesive Pronouns
They are sort of
pronouns in that they refer to an understood noun, showing possession by that
noun of something. They are technically adjectives,
though, because they modify a noun that follows them. Possessive pronouns are
used to show possession. As they are used as adjectives, they are also known as
possessive
adjectives. My, your, his, her, its, our and their are
all possessive pronouns..
Examples
:
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I gambled it all away on your race horse.
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Have you seen her book?
I. Reflexsive Pronouns
The reflexive pronouns
aremyself, yourself, herself, himself, itself,
ourselves, yourselves, and themselves. These words can be
either reflexive pronouns or emphatic
pronouns.This page is about their use as reflexive pronouns. A
reflexive pronoun
is used with another noun (or pronoun) when something does something to itself.
Examples
:
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Brian pinched himself.
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The members
argued amongst themselves for an hour.
2.
There are 3
types of question word! Explain those 3 types along with their examples!
1.
Yes / No
Question
The first thing to
remember is that there are two main kinds, 'yes / no' and 'wh'. To form yes/no
questions where there is an auxiliary verb or a modal verb, we invert the word
order of a positive sentence.
Examples :
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Do you eat fish? No I don’t
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Have they got a car? Yes they have.
- Word Question
Sometimes we want
more than yes or no for an answer. When asking for information, we usually
place a question-word at the beginning of the sentence. The question-word
indicates the information that we want, like : where (place), when
(time), why (reason), who (person).
Examples :
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Where is the hotel?
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Who has just arrived?
- Choice questions
Sometimes we give
our listener a choice. We ask them to choose between two possible answers. So
their answer is (usually) already in the question.
Examples :
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Do you want tea or coffe ? Coffe Please
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Is your car white or black ? Black
