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The Power of Pronouns. Pronouns get their power from the nouns they replace. Pronoun Power. A pronoun is used in place of a noun or another pronoun. For example: Carla and Mitchell lift weights every day, but Mitchell is much stronger because he is a professional body builder.
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The Power of Pronouns Pronouns get their power from the nouns they replace.
Pronoun Power • A pronoun is used in place of a noun or another pronoun. • For example: Carla and Mitchell lift weights every day, but Mitchell is much stronger because he is a professional body builder.
The Pronoun Cases • There are three pronoun cases: Nominative Case Objective Case Possessive Case
NominativeCase • The nominative case is also called the subject case because pronouns can act as the subject of the sentence or as the predicate nominative. (predicate noun) • For Example: Mrs. Troncale is a teacher. She has been teaching in Trussville for twelve years. She is a nominative pronoun because it acts as the subject of the sentence.
Objective Case • Object pronouns receive the action of a verb. • Object pronouns can act as direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of the preposition. • For Example: Mary threw the ball. • Mary is the subject performing the action of throwing, but the ball is receiving the action which makes it the direct object.
Possessive Case • Possessive pronouns show possession. • Possessive pronouns do not use apostrophe’s to show possession like nouns, but instead they have their very own word to express possessives. • For Example: That is your suitcase, but this one is mine. Notice there are no apostrophe’s. • Which one is the possessive pronoun: they’re, or their? Remember the rule above.
