my, our, your, his, her, its, their, mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, theirs, 3) reflexive pronouns:
myself, ourselves, yourself yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves, oneself, 4) reciprocal pronouns:
each other, one another, Personal pronouns are used instead of nouns. The principal grammatical category of the class is
the
category of Person, which is constituted by the words or lexemes, not by a set of
grammatical forms:
/, we, you, he, she, it, they. Once personal pronouns are noun-substitutes they share nounal grammatical characteristics,
namely they have the categories of
Number, Case and in the third person singular — the
category of
Gender. The category of
Number is formed by the opposition of singular and plural pronouns of the
first and third persons:
/ —
we, he/she/it — they. The second person is represented by the only
plural form
you. In a sentence
you always takes a plural verb:
You are my only friend. You have to be careful with people you don't know. HANDOUT 1. Underline the correct word or phrase in each sentence. a) Richard and I have never really hit
it/ourselves off.
b) The manager promised to look into
my request/the matter. c) I am afraid I don't hold with
this kind of thing/people like you. d) Hang on to the tickets,
they might fall/we'll need them later. e) The team couldn't keep up
the pressure/the score in the second half.
f) This'll go off unless you
put it in the fridge/close the window.
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g) I think
the second paragraph/a great opportunity has been missed out.
h) Most of the meeting was given over
in the end/to Tom's report. i) Stephen eventually
confessed up/owned up to sixteen murders,
j) Something odd is going on
behind my back/tomorrow afternoon.
