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TSL 1024 LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION

PART A : WORD CLASSES

In learning English Language we must know about the language and the grammar as well since both of them are closely connected. Being an expert in grammar help us to be a better speaker.

Word classes or also known as parts of speech can be divided to nine different classes

Nouns
Pronouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Determiners
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections
Verbs

Word Classes : Pronouns (click here for pronouns song)

Definition of Pronouns

What is actually meant by pronouns? Pronoun is a word that is used to replace nouns and pronoun refers to something that has been mentioned earlier.

Term of pronoun

Pronoun or ‘pro+noun’ which refers to people,places,things or ideas in general whose identity was mentioned earlier.

Rule of pronouns

Pronouns must be agree with the noun that it replaces in terms of the number and gender of the noun.

The important of pronouns

To avoid repetition of nouns in a sentence

Types of Pronouns

1)Personal pronouns

-refers to the speaker or writer

	Function: subject pronouns -the doer of the action		Function: object pronouns -refers to the person whom the action of the verb affects.
	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
First-person pronoun	I	We	Me	Us
Second-person pronoun	You		You
Third-person pronoun	He	They	Him	Them
	She		Her
	It		It
Examples of sentences	He was a handsome man. She is a good student in her school.		She asked me to help her in her Maths. Jojie loves you very much.

2)Possessive pronouns.

-2 types of possessive pronouns

Sometimes posssessive pronoun is classsify as adjective if a noun follows the possessive pronoun :My house located next to our English teacher’s house.

· ‘Its’ cannot be assume as a possessive pronoun

	Singular	Plural
First-person pronoun	Mine	Ours
Second-person pronoun	Yours
Third-person pronoun	His	Theirs
Third-person pronoun	Hers	Theirs
Examples of sentences	That car is mine. Is that yours? This was my fault, not theirs.

3)Reflexive pronouns

-reflexive refers to the subject which is mentioned in the sentence

-When to use reflexive pronouns: when the subject and the object are same

To emphasize the subject.

	Singular	Plural
First-person pronoun	Myself	Ourselves
Second-person pronoun	Yourself	Yourselves
Third-person pronoun	Himself	Themselves
	Herself
	Itself
Examples of sentences	She did it herself. He should be proud of himself	They organised the party themselves.

4)Demonstrative pronouns

-refers to a specific person, place or thing.

Singular	Plural
This	These
That	Those

Examples: This is my father.

These are my course mates.

5)Indefinite pronouns

-refers to nonspecific people, places or things.

-it is vague.

-tips to know whether the indefinite pronoun used is singular or plural is by looking to the

verb that is used.

Singular	Plural	Singular or Plural
Another	Both	All
Anybody	Few	Any
Anyone	Many	Enough
Anything	Others	Half
Each	Several	More
Either		Most
Everybody		None
Everyone		Some
Everything
Little
Much
Neither
Nobody
No one
Nothing
One
Other
Somebody
Someone
Something

Examples of sentences: Everyone is listening to the music.

Both of them are dancing gracefully.

Half bottle of the sugar is used to make the sweet cake.

6)Reciprocal Pronouns

-express a mutual relationship between the subject and the object or between two or more

people which are acting in the same way towards the other.

Each other

· Used when the group consist

of two people

· Informal conversation

One another

· Used when the group consist of

more than two people

· Formal conversation

Examples of sentences: They are talking to each other.

They are challenging one another

7)Relative pronouns

-to indicate and describe the person or thing you are talking about.

-used in complex sentences

Who · To describe the person who did the action or to state which person is in a certain state. · Example :The girl who has a ponytail hair is my classmate.	Whom · To ask which person that is affected by the action done. · Example :That is the girl whom yell to me when I accidentally step on her long dress.
Whose · To tell about the owner of something or to know which person something belongs to · Example: Patient whose doctor is friendly to them tend to has a shorter time to heal.	Which · To refer to something that has been mentioned earlier in order to give further information about something. · Example : The huge bag which is red is my favourite bag.
That · Used in defining relative clauses especially for things and people. · Example : The man that sit beside you is my favourite science teacher.

8)Interrogative pronoun

- used to form question that require ‘nouns’ as the answers

Which · Used for person, nouns or things · Example: Which is your cupcake?	What · Used for animals and things · Example: What kind of species is your bird pet?
Whose · To show possession (for person) · Example: Whose car is this?	Whom · Used for person · Object(him,her) · Whom do you want to meet?
Who · Used for person · Subject(he,she) · Example: Who is your partner?

Here are some quiz for you

1. This is my spoon. The spoon is (mine , yours)

2. This is our tree. The tree is (yours , ours )

3. He was tired out but he forced .................. to go on.

4. Put it down in front of..............................

5. We built most of the house ....................

6. That,s a very easy job. (Anybody , Somebody ) can do it.

7. Has everybody collected........................ luggage.

8. If anybody wants to know, tell................. to phone this number.

9. Tell everyone I'll wait for ..........................here.

10. Its too late. We can't do anything to help.

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Sunday, 30 August 2015

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