Wednesday, September 21, 2011.

NOTE: Due to glitch in electronic literature book, "Technology" essays will be due next Monday, 9/26. If you have your essay completed, turn it in.

1) PARTS OF SPEECH: Review of PRONOUNS:


NOUN: A NOUN is a word that NAMES a person, place, thing, or idea.
Classifications: common, proper; concrete, abstract; compound, collective.

Example: girl, Betty, chair, happiness birthright band

PRONOUN: A PRONOUN is a word that takes the place of a noun or group of nouns.
Classifications: personal, reflective, intensive, relative, interrogative, demonstrative, or indefinite.

Personal Pronouns: Refers to the one speaking (first person), the one spoken to (second person), or the one spoken about (third person).
I, me he, him it they, them
You she, her we, us

Possessive Pronouns These are personal pronouns that show ownership:
my, mine, our ours; your, yours his, her, hers, its, their, theirs



Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns.

Myself, ourselves (first person)
Yourself, yourselves (second person)
Himself, herself, itself, themselves (third person)

Reflexive pronouns refer to the subject of the sentence and function as a complement or as the object of a preposition. Ex.

I am not myself today. (myself is the predicate nominative identifying I)
Cecilia let herself in through a trap door. (Herself is the direct object of let)
The boys chose costumes for themselves. (themselves is the object of the prep. For)

Intensive pronouns add “intensity” and have no grammatical function in the sentence. (The sentence can do fine without them.)
Ray painted the mural himself.
The children dyed the eggs themselves.

Demonstrative pronouns. Used to point out persons or things. (Think of a pointing finger)

this, these that, those


Relative Pronouns: Introduce subordinate clauses.
Who, whom, which, that, whose

Interrogative Pronouns: Are used in questions.

Who? To Whom? For whom?, Which? Whose? What?

Indefinite Pronouns: Refer to a person, place, thing, or idea that may or may not be specifically named.

all
everybody
no one
another
everyone
one
any
few
other
anybody
many
several
anyone
most
some
both
neither
somebody
each
nobody
someone
either
none
such
something



2) Complete G.U.M. workbook page 8. Grade in class.