Ayo kita kenali istilah PRONOUNS in English

Wednesday, 1 April 2020

Modul Pembelajaran

 Materi      :  Pronouns, Subjective, Objective, Possessive

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a common noun or a proper noun.

There are different kinds of pronouns.

1.  Personal Pronouns

Subject	Object	Possesive		Reflexive
		Adjective	Pronoun
I	Me	My	Mine	Myself
You	You	Your	Yours	Yourself
They	Them	Their	Theirs	Themselves
We	Us	Our	Ours	Ourselves
She	Her	Her	Hers	Herself
He	Him	His	His	Himself
it	It	Its		Itself

The words I, you, he, she, it, we and they are called personal pronouns.

They take the place of nouns and are used as the subject of the verb in a sentence

  

2.      There are three groups of pronouns;

a.      First person,

The person speaking is called the first person.

The first-person pronouns are I or me (in the singular) and we or us (in the plural).

The word I is always spelled with a capital letter.

b.      Second person

The person spoken to is called the second person.

The second-person pronoun is you.

o   You – You - Yourself (Singular)

o   You  - You - Yourselves (Plural)

c.       Third person.

The person (or animal, or thing) spoken about is called the third person.

The third-person pronouns are he or him, she or her, and it (in the singular), and they or them (in the plural).

The pronoun he is used for a man and a boy, she for woman and girl, and it for thing and an animal.

 For Example:

1.  Tom likes riding my bicycle. I sometimes lend it to him.

2.  I made this cake myself.

3.  Be careful with the knife. You’ll cut yourself.

4.  Michael is looking at himself in the mirror.

5.  Susan has hurt herself.

6.  Our cat washes itself after each meal.

7.  We organized the party all by ourselves.

8.  Baby birds are too young to look after themselves.