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10.2 Pronouns

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Pronoun - is a word that takes the place of a noun, a group of words acting as a noun, or another pronoun.

Personal - refers to a specific person, place, thing or idea by indicating the person speaking, the person being spoken to, or any other person or thing being discussed.

i.e. I, me, we, us, you, he, she, it, they. . .

Reflexive - refers to a noun or another pronoun and indicates that the same person is involved.

You outdid yourself when you wrote that song.

The team itself chose the captain.

this, that, these, those

who? whom? whose? what? which?

Relative - is used to begin a special subject-verb word group called a subordinate clause.

The people who invented Monopoly were surprised by its success.

Dominoes is a game that many Texans play.

Indefinite - refers to persons, places, or things in a more general way than nouns do.

Everyone needs food. Did you get enough to eat?