Wednesday, August 28

Pronouns versus Adjectives

PRONOUNS
E.g. I love you/ I love U
        All by myself 
    
Personal Pronouns
Subject Pronouns + Verb + Object, Accusative or 
                                                 Complement Pronouns
                                       I           love       me                                       
                                      You      love       you                                     
                                      He       loves      him                                    
                                      She     loves      her                                      
                                       It        loves       it                                            
                                      We      love        us                                   
                                      You     love        you                               
                                      They   love       them                             

Reflexive or Emphatic Pronouns
myself                                     
yourself
himself
herself 
itself  
ourselves
yourselves
themselves 
For example: I hurt myself.  Reflexive (The subject and the object are the same.)
                      She herself opened the bottle. (This pronoun emphasizes the subject, it could be removed.)

Possessive  
E.g. He's broken his leg.
 
ADJECTIVE OR DETERMINER                                    PRONOUN
Possessive Adjectives          +  Noun                                           Possessive Pronouns
or Possessive Determiner
                              my       car                                        mine
                            your       chair                                     yours
                              his       house                                   his
                             her        job                                       hers
                                it        grass                                   its (not used)
                             our        son                                      ours
                           your        daughter                             yours
                           their        way                                     theirs
E.g. My car is mine, not yours.     
       Mine replaces my car and yours replaces your car.

a+noun+of mine/your/his,etc...      
E.g. Peter is a friend of mine.
       Penny is a colleague of his
     
Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns
Singular                                         Plural
THIS                                           THESE
THAT                                          THOSE 
E.g. This leg belong to that chair. This is its leg.
         Adjectives or determiners     This replaces chair

Indefine Adjectives                       Indefine Pronouns    
Another+Singular noun                                             Others and The others              
Other+few/or numeral+Plural nouns                                  Plural
The other+Singular noun                                     


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