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all about pronouns

Pronouns must agree in number and gender with the nouns to which they refer.. A teacher must respect his or her students.. NOT. A teacher must respect their students.. Many indefinite pronouns are always singular.. Words that end in

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all about pronouns

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    1. All About Pronouns

    3. Many indefinite pronouns are always singular. Words that end in –one, -body, and –thing are always singular: everyone someone anyone no one everybody somebody anybody nobody everything something anything nothing

    4. For example: Is anyone going to bring their Lee Perry album? Everyone is going to bring his or her camera on the trip to Mexico. No one wants to lose his or her way.

    5. Pronoun case structure Nominative Objective Possessive Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular Plural First Person I we me us my our[s] Second Person thou you thee you thy your[s] Third Person he, she, they him, her, them his, her[s] their[s] it it its

    6. What is the nominative case? The nominative case refers to the subject of verb—the doer of the action or the thing that is being described. For example: The man bit the dog with his sharp teeth.

    7. What is the objective case? The objective case refers to what is having the action done to it, either directly or indirectly. For example: The teacher gave the book (direct object) to him (indirect object).

    8. Nominative case rules Use the nominative case when the pronoun is the subject of the verb; the pronoun is a subject complement or appositive; the infinitive “to be” is without a subject; the sentence is a comparison.

    9. Objective case rules Use the objective case when The pronoun is the direct or indirect object of the verb; The pronoun is the object of a preposition; The pronoun is the object of an infinitive; The infinitive “to be” has a subject.

    10. Special notes They ain’t no sech wurds in formal academic writing as hisself themself theirselves.

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