Tham khảo tài liệu 'the complete idiot guide part 8', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 4 Terms of Endearment More Ports of Speech 53 Pronouns Pinch Hitters Say you wrote this sentence Mr. Hufnagle gave Mr. Hufnagle s pen to Mr. Hufnagle s wife Mrs. Hufnagle Mrs. Hufnagle was grateful for the pen. You would be reduced to this sorry state were it not for the delightful and ever useful little pronoun. Thanks to Mr. Pronoun you can write this graceful sentence instead Mr. Hufnagle gave his pen to his wife Mrs. Hufnagle she was grateful for it. You Could Look It Up Pronouns are words used in place of a noun or another pronoun. An antecedent is the noun that the pronoun stands for. Now I know you have to agree that the Take My Word for It pronoun is a thing of beauty indeed. - TL . . . r J J I he word antecedent comes A pronoun is a word used in place of a a wor meanin9 to noun or another pronoun. Pronouns help e ore However as in the you avoid unnecessary repetition in your example here the noun doesn t . . . have to appear betore the prowriting and speech. . T tl xL- r noun in a sentence. I he things A pronoun gets its meaning from the noun it you learn in this book stands for. The noun is called the antecedent. Here s an example Although Seattle is damp it is my favorite city antecedent pronoun Of course there are different kinds of pronouns. Most of them have antecedents but a few do not. Meet the pronoun family. 1. Personal pronouns refer to a specific person place object or thing. Here are the major players First person Second person Third person her hers it Singular I me mine my you your yours he him his she theirs its Plural we us our ours you your yours they them their Under the Grammar Hammer__ 2. Possessive pronouns show ownership. The possessive pronouns are yours his hers its ours theirs whose. Is this nice dead cat yours Yes it s ours. 3. Reflexive pronouns add information to a sentence by pointing back to a noun or pronoun near the beginning of the sentence. Reflexive pronouns end in -self or -selves. Herman .
