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the independent work prepared by numonjonova mubina, a student of the 117th group of the faculty of english language and literature of the andijan state institute of foreign languages, on language aspects the independent work prepared by numonjonova mubina, a student of the 117th group of the faculty of english language and literature of the andijan state institute of foreign languages, on language aspects pronouns pronouns type: personal pronoun possessive pronoun reflexive pronoun demonstrative pronoun interrogative pronoun indefinite pronoun pronouns are words (or phrases) you substitute for nouns when your reader or listener already knows which noun you’re referring to. for example, you might say, “i have a dog. she’s brown and white.” there’s no need to clarify that you’re describing your dog in the second sentence because you already mentioned her in the first. by using the pronoun she, you can avoid the annoying repetition of the dog. pronouns …
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nouns can replace both proper and common nouns. certain pronouns have specific rules about when they can be used, such as the way it should never be used to refer to a human being. we explain all of the different types and their associated rules below. notice that some pronouns (such as which and whose) can function as more than one type, depending on how they’re deployed in a sentence. what is an antecedentremember how we mentioned that in order to use a pronoun, you need to introduce the noun first? that noun has a name: an antecedent.antecedents are necessary because pronouns are versatile. think about it—it can refer to a bike, a tree, a car, or a city, and we just used it to refer to something else entirely: pronouns’ versatility. take a look at these examples, in which pronouns are bolded and the nouns they’re referring to are …
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me she/her he/him they/them it we/us you relative pronounsrelative pronouns are another class of pronouns. they connect relative clauses to independent clauses. often, they introduce additional information about something mentioned in the sentence. relative pronouns include these words: that what which who whom who vs. whom—subject and object pronounsknowing when to use who and when to use whom trips a lot of writers up. the difference is actually pretty simple: who is for the subject of a sentence or clause, and whom is for the object of a verb or preposition. here are a couple of a quick examples: who mailed this package? demonstrative pronounsthat, this, these, and those are demonstrative pronouns. they can point directly to an antecedent or replace one that has already been mentioned or is clear through context.this is used for singular items that are nearby. these is used for multiple items that are nearby. the …
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challenging because the emphasis isn’t always obvious. take a look at these examples of intensive pronouns and examine how they’re different from the examples in the previous section: i told them i could do it myself. possessive pronounsas their names imply, both possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives show ownership. possessive pronouns are sometimes called independent possessive pronouns or absolute possessive pronouns. they show possession of a noun by replacing it. they look like this: mine yours ours his hers theirs its interrogative pronounsinterrogative pronouns are used in questions. these are the interrogative pronouns: who whose whom what whichhere are a few examples of interrogative pronouns at play: who wants a bag of jelly beans? reciprocal pronounsthere are only two reciprocal pronouns: each other and one another.these pronouns describe a mutual relationship between two or more elements. take a look at these examples: javier and priya, the two top salespeople on …
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the independent work prepared by numonjonova mubina, a student of the 117th group of the faculty of english language and literature of the andijan state institute of foreign languages, on language aspects the independent work prepared by numonjonova mubina, a student of the 117th group of the faculty of english language and literature of the andijan state institute of foreign languages, on language aspects pronouns pronouns type: personal pronoun possessive pronoun reflexive pronoun demonstrative pronoun interrogative pronoun indefinite pronoun pronouns are words (or phrases) you substitute for nouns when your reader or listener already knows which noun you’re referring to. for example, you might say, “i have a dog. she’s brown and white.” there’s no need to clarify that you’re …

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