Pronouns - created from Mind Map

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Pronouns are words that replace nouns.

Demonstrative

A demonstrative pronoun is a pronoun that is used to point to something specific within a sentence. These pronouns can indicate items in space or time, and they can be either singular or plural. 

Near in time or distance: this, these

Far in time or distance: that, those

Intensive

My mother bakes our family’s bread herself.

 An intensive pronoun  ends in self or selves and places emphasis on its antecedent by referring back to another noun or pronoun used earlier in the sentence.  An intensive pronoun is not necessary to the sentence and can be removed.I 

Personal

A personal pronoun is a pronoun that is associated primarily with a particular person, in the grammatical sense.

First person, as in “I”

Second person, as in “you”Third person, as in “It, he, she”

Objective: can be a direct object, object of preposition, etc

Nominative: The subject

Possessive: shows ownership

Indefinite

 everyone everybody everywhere everything someone somebody somewhere something anyone anybody anywhere anything None no one nobody nowhere nothing

Indefinite pronouns do not refer to a specific person, place, or thing

Reflexive

A reflexive pronoun is a type of pronoun that is preceded by the adverb, adjective, pronoun, or noun to which it refers, so long as that antecedent is located within the same clause. A reflexive pronoun is necessary to the sentence and cannot be removed. 

We made the cookie cake by ourselves.

Relative

Relative starts a dependent clause

A relative pronoun is one which is used to refer to nouns mentioned previously, whether they are people, places, things, animals, or ideas. Relative pronouns can be used to join two sentences. 

That, whom, which, whose, who

Interrogative

An interrogative pronoun is a pronoun which is used to make asking questions easy. 

what, which, who, whom, whose