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| noun, pronoun, conjunction, adjective, adverbs, verbs, prepositions, interjections |
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| abstract, collective, concrete, common, proper |
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| Nouns that complete actions or have actions done to them |
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nouns that follow prepositions. In the
following sentence, the preposition is on, and floor is its object.
John dropped the pie on the floor. |
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Subject complements are words that follow linking verbs (such as is or
are). A subject complement explains, renames, or describes a subject.
My brother is a mechanic. |
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| signify upcoming nouns. Some are a, an, or the |
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Personal
Possessive
Demonstrative
Interrogative
Relative
Indefinite |
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| Personal pronouns refer to |
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People doing the speaking
People being spoken to
People or other nouns being spoken about |
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personal pronouns that show ownership
possessive pronouns are never spelled with an apostrophe |
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point out definite persons,
places, things, or ideas
this, these, that, those |
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| Interrogative pronouns are used in asking questions who,whose,whom,which,what |
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Relative pronouns show relationships by introducing a new idea into
a sentence who,which,what,that,whose,whom,whoever,whosoever,whichever,
whatever,whomever,whatsoever |
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Indefinite pronouns refer to unspecified nouns, or sometimes just to
things in general |
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all,another,any,anybody,anyone,anything, both,each,each one,
each other, either, everybody, everyone, everything, few,many,neither,
nobody,none,no one,nothing,one,one another, other,
others, several, some,somebody, someone, something |
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The person, place, thing, or idea that a pronoun replaces or refers back to is
called its antecedent. |
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| Pronouns like nouns can be subjects, direct objects, indirect objects or subject complements |
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| the doer of the action, the one who acts |
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| the receiver of the action, the one who sits back and lets it all happen to him/her |
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| direct recipient of the verbs action |
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| is needed when the direct object alone doesn't tell a story |
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compound subjects and object
2 or more nouns or pronouns have the same case form as if it stood alone |
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the use of she & I, vs her & me
The proposal disappointed her & him |
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| When both subject and subject complement appear in the same sentence what form would you use for the pronoun |
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use the subjective form
The one who cares most is she |
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| I, you, he, she, it, we, they, man, who |
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| me, you, her, him, it, us, them, whom |
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| Use who for a subject whom for an object. To test answer the question and if him makes sense use whom if he makes sense use who. |
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| In subordinate clauses use either whoever or whomever as follows; the same subject or object rule applies. So it all depends on the sentence word use |
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m is for him like whom and whomever
he then its who or whoever
(he) who/ whoever is also the subject form while (him) whom/whomever is the object form |
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Using We or Us
BEFORE A NOUN |
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Depends on how the nouns used
If its the subjece use We
If the object of the preposition use Us |
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| words or word groups that renames a noun or pronoun |
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| Use of pronouns in an appositive |
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| depends on the word the appositives renaming function in the sentence |
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If the pronouns appositive was a subject use the subjective form
If the appositive is the object use the objective form |
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the original form of the verb + to
to learn, to read, to write |
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| Pronoun case forms and use of an infinitive in a sentence |
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Use the subject and objects in their objective form.
The school asked him to speak. Students chose to invite him. |
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| the ing form of a verb used as a noun in a sent. Generally, use the possessive form of a pronoun before the gerund |
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