Transcript PRONOUNS!!!! - Caddo Mills ISD / Overview

There are many types of
pronouns!
Personal
Interrogative
Demonstrative
Relative
Indefinite
Reflexive
Personal Pronouns
There are three different
types of personal pronouns;
possessive, subjective and
objective.
*The subjective personal
pronoun acts as the
SUBJECT of the sentence.*
~The objective personal
pronoun acts as the object of
a verb, compound verb,
preposition, or infinitive
phrase.~
Subjective
Personal
Pronouns:
I, you, she,
he, it, we,
they
Objective Personal
Pronouns:
Me, you, her, him,
it, us, them
Orange arrows = subject pronouns
Yellow arrows = object pronouns
Examples of subject & object
pronouns:
Zeus lived atop Mount Olympus, and he was the
god of the heavens and earth.
Zeus was the ruler of weather and giver of
justice. He was married to the goddess Hera.
Despite being married to her, Zeus had many
affairs.
Zeus’s affairs with goddesses and mortals
made her jealous.
Possessive
Personal
Pronouns
Indicates that the pronoun is
acting as a marker of
possession and defines who
owns a particular thing or
person.
Possessive
Personal Pronouns:
My, your, his, her,
our, their
Mine, yours, hers,
his, its, ours,
theirs (use when
you drop the noun
of the possession)
Possessive examples:
Zeus ruled over all with his lightning and
thunderbolts. His symbols were the sharp-eyed
eagle and the mighty oak tree.
As a mother, Hera chose the cow as her symbol.
As a queen, she used the splendor of the
peacock to remind mortals of her power.
Reflexive Pronouns:
Reflexive
Pronouns
Used when the action of
the subject goes back to
the subject. The subject is
the same as the object.
Always ends in self.
Myself, yourself,
herself, himself,
itself, ourselves,
yourselves,
themselves
Reflexive examples:
Zeus could not help himself when it came to
having affairs.
Hera could not stop herself from being jealous
about the affairs.
We must educate ourselves about Greek
Mythology.
Relative Pronouns:
Relative
Pronouns
Used to join two
sentences about the same
person or thing.
who, which,
that, whom,
whose
Possessive examples:
Poseidon was the god of the sea and
earthquakes whose brother was Zeus.
Poseidon’s symbols include a trident, which is a
three pronged spear.
Poseidon was Zeus’s brother who lived mainly in
an underwater kingdom.