Transcript Pronoun, Helping Verbs, and Prepositions

Pronoun, Helping Verbs, and
Prepositions
Pronouns
 A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun or
another pronoun in a sentence or a phrase.
 Examples of pronouns: he, she, it, you, they, them,
yourself, myself, himself, herself, yourselves, whom etc.
 Example sentences:
David reads the paper; he reads it every morning. The
pronoun ‘he’ replaces the noun ‘David’ and ‘it’ replaces
‘paper’. The boys didn’t make the team and they were very
sad. The pronoun ‘they’ replaces the noun ‘boys’. Jane sent
her mother yellow roses which are her favorite flowers. The
pronoun ‘which’ replaces the noun ‘roses’ and the
possessive pronoun ‘her’ stands in for the possessive noun
‘mothers’.
Helping Verbs
 Helping Verbs- Auxiliary or helping verbs help out the main
verb in a sentence. They are used in verb conjugation to
show the progressive and the perfect tenses of verbs.
 The following table lists some of the helping verbs:
Am
Is
Are
Was
Were
Be
Being
Been
Have
Has
Had
Do
Does
Did
Can
Could
May
Might
Must
Will
Should
Would
Ought to
Used to
Primary and Modal Helping Verbs
Primary helping verbs
Modal helping verbs
 Be, do, and have are
considered the primary
helping verbs. They are
considered so because they
can help the main verb or
actually be the main verb.
 Modal helping verbs help
“modify” the main verb so
that it changes the
meaning, somewhat. They
help express possibility and
necessity. Examples: can,
could, may, might, will,
would, shall, should, and
must.
Prepositions
 Prepositions are words that show relationship
between a noun, pronoun, and some other elements
of a sentence. They link nouns, pronouns, and phrases
to other words in a sentence.
 A phrase is a group of words that lacks either a subject
or a verb and functions as a single part of speech.
 A prepositional phrase is made up of the preposition,
its object, and any associated adjectives or adverbs.
 Prepositions are only used in phrases.
 The object of a preposition always asks a question with
who or what after the preposition.
 Prepositional phrases never contain a subject or a verb.
Some commonly used prepositions are listed in
the table below:
Aboard
Below
Into
Under
About
Beneath
Like
Underneath
Above
Beside
Of
Until
Across
Between
Off
Up
After
Beyond
On
Upon
Against
By
Over
With
Along
Down
Past
Within
Among
During
Since
Without
Around
Except
Through
Near
At
For
throughout
Before
From
To
Behind
In
Toward
Some compound prepositions are listed in the
table below:
According to
In addition to
Next to
Aside from
In place of
On account of
Because of
In spite of
Out of
References
 http://www.k12reader.com/helping-verbs/
http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergr
ammar/preposit.html
 http://www.english-grammarrevolution.com/what-is-a-preposition.html