2. Indefinite, Reflexive, Intensive, and
Interrogative, and Demonstrative Pronouns
December 14, 2011
Warm up: How many words can you make by
combining the following words. Write all the words
you can think of.
any, some, no, thing, body, one
Today’s objective is to define and identify
indefinite, reflexive, intensive, interrogative, and
demonstrative pronouns.
3. Indefinite Pronouns
Does not refer to a particular person, place or
thing.
Singular—All words made in the warm up
Plus, another, much, neither, each, and either
Plural—Both, few, many, others, several
Depends—All, any, most, none, some
4. So?
Subject-Verb Agreement
Example:
Everyone eats (his or her, their) lunch.
Example:
Many are enjoying (his or her, their) roles
in the play.
5. Reflexive and Intensive
Pronouns
ends with –self or –selves and refers to the
subject of a sentence. In a sentence with a
reflexive pronoun, the action of the verb returns
to the subject. As an intensive pronoun, it
serves to draw special attention to a noun
already named.
Singular-myself, yourself, himself, herself,
itself
Plural-ourselves, yourselves, themselves
6. So?
No hisself!
No theirselves!
The volunteers were proud of
(themselves, theirselves).
Jim repaired the old grandfather clock
(himself, hisself).
7. Interrogative and Demonstrative
Pronouns
a pronoun used to introduce an interrogative (question)
sentence.
Who—subject and refers to people
Whom-object and refers to people
Which and what—refer to things and ideas
Whose—shows possession. Don’t confuse it with
who’s. That’s a contraction!
This, these, that, those—Refer to things nearby and
at a distance.
8. Practice
Everyone (wonder, wonders) about the
accuracy of the story in the newspaper.
In my opinion, all of the action movies this
summer (are, is) unrealistic.
Everyone in John’s class (is, are) grossed out
by his nose picking habit.
The engineers (theirselves, themselves)
examined the bridge.
9. Practice
(Whose, Who’s) that bald man with the yellow
umbrella?
(Whose, Who’s) are the red sneakers with the
pink shoelaces?
(Who, Whom) has won the election?
Esi and (I, myself) learned about Neil
Armstrong.
Did anybody pick (his or her, their) nose during
class?
10. Practice
Few of the students (have, has) volunteered
yet.
All of the sugar (are, is) spilling onto the floor.
Mr. McFadden bought (himself, hisself) a new
tractor for his fields.
This book is (mines, mine’s, mine).
(It’s, Its) fun in English class.
The dog chased (it’s, its) ball through the back
yard.
11. Homework and Review
Due Tuesday December 20, 2011
Test Wednesday December 21, 2011
Complete the Unit 4 Review handout.
Then complete one of the following.
Look through your notes and make a flash card for each
pronoun. On one side write the pronoun. On the other, write all
the ways you would classify that pronoun or any special
instructions. (Remember, number, person, and case.)
Look through all of your notes and create a poster-sized chart
of all of the pronouns we have discussed. You can organize the
pronouns by each category and include person, case, and
number.
