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12 Cards in this Set
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What is a pronoun?
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A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun.
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What is a personal pronoun?
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pronouns that require different forms to express person, number, and gender.
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What is an antecedent?
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the noun that a pronoun replaces
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What indicates whether the antecedent is singular or plural?
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The number
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What indicates whether the antecedent is masculine, feminine, or neuter.
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The gender.
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What are possessive pronouns?
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Personal Pronouns that show ownership or belonging.
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What are demonstrative pronouns?
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Pronouns that specify the individual or the group that is being referred to.
this, that,these,those. |
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What are reflexive pronouns?
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Prounouns that indicate that people or things.
ends with -self, or -selves |
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What are intensive pronouns?
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Pronouns are the same as reflexive, but their function is to draw special attention to persons, places or objects.
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What are interrogative Pronouns?
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Pronouns that introduce questions.
ex: who, whom, which, what, and whose. |
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What are relative pronouns?
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Relative pronouns introduce adjective clauses..who,whose,whom,which and that.
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What are indefinite pronouns?
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Refer to people places or things in general.
all,another,any,both,everybody,everyone,few,many,more somebody.etc. |
