👤Pronouns

A pronoun can replace a noun or noun phrase when the listener knows, can see or does not need the exact name.

Pronouns make sentences shorter and prevent unnecessary repetition.

Choose a pronoun according to its job in the sentence, not only according to the person or thing it refers to.

A subject performs the action or is described; an object receives the action or follows a preposition.

Some English pronouns change form when their job changes.

Possessive pronouns replace an owned noun: This bag is mine.

Demonstratives point to specific people or things: this, that, these and those.

Indefinite pronouns refer without naming exactly who, what or where: someone, anything, nowhere.

English normally requires an explicit subject: It is raining, not Is raining.

I is always written with a capital letter.

A pronoun must clearly refer to the intended person, thing or idea.

The lessons move from the core subject and object forms to possession and demonstratives.

The final lesson introduces useful indefinite pronoun families and their sentence patterns.