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Determiners and Pronoun Part 1

The document provides an overview of determiners and pronouns in English grammar, detailing their usage with countable and uncountable nouns. It explains various types of pronouns including personal, reflexive, emphatic, demonstrative, indefinite, distributive, and relative pronouns, along with examples and distinctions between them. Additionally, it includes practice exercises to reinforce understanding of these concepts.

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Determiners and Pronoun Part 1

The document provides an overview of determiners and pronouns in English grammar, detailing their usage with countable and uncountable nouns. It explains various types of pronouns including personal, reflexive, emphatic, demonstrative, indefinite, distributive, and relative pronouns, along with examples and distinctions between them. Additionally, it includes practice exercises to reinforce understanding of these concepts.

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By Gurukul

By Gurukul

DETERMINERS
CREATED & PRESENTED BY SUBHAJIT GUHA
FEW, A FEW, THE FEW By Gurukul

USED WITH COUNTABLE NOUNS, LIKE- BOOK, PEN, GIRL, STUDENT ETC.

FEW- (HARDLY ANY) NEGATIVE SENSE

A FEW- SOME BUT NOT MANY.

THE FEW- NOT MANY BUT ALL AVAILABLE


LITTLE, A LITTLE, THE LITTLE By Gurukul

USED WITH UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS LIKE- WATER, MILK, ETC.

LITTLE- HARDLY ANY.

A LITTLE- SOME BUT NOT MUCH.

THE LITTLE- NOT MUCH BUT ALL THAT IS AVAILABLE


MUCH & MANY By Gurukul

MUCH MANY
• OPPOSITE OF LITTLE • OPPOSITE OF FEW
• USED WITH UNCOUNTABLE • USED WITH COUNTABLE NOUN
NOUN
SOME & ANY By Gurukul

SOME ANY
• MEANS A LITTLE. • MEANS A LITTLE
• USED WITH UNCOUNTABLE • USED IN NEGATIVE AND
NOUNS TO DENOTE QUANTITY. INTEROGATIVE SENTENCES.
• ALSO PLURAL COUNTABLE
NOUN
• USED IN AFFIRMATIVE
SENTENCE
EXAMPLES OF SOME & ANY By Gurukul

• There are some milk in the • I will not give you any money.
pot. • I don’t have any problem.
• There are some students the • Do I have any problem?
class
Lets practice… By Gurukul

• --------knowledge is dangerous thing?(a little/a few/some)


• the doctor advised him to rest for _____ days.(few/a few/the few)
• ---------water I kept for you has been finished by him.(little/few/the little)
• The show was cancelled as-______people turned up to see it. (few/little)
• I can not prepare tea for you, there is_________ milk in the refrigerator
(little/some/a little)
• Do you have ______ doubt? (any/some)
• Have you got_______ potatoes left? (little/some/any)
• Give me ______ potatoes.(any/some)
EACH AND EVERY By Gurukul

EACH EVERY
• MEANS ALL IN THE GROUP • ALL IN THE GROUP.
• DIRECTS ATTENTION TO THE • ‘EVERY’ IS USED WHEN THE
INDIVIDUAL FORMING ANY NUMBER IS INDEFINITE.
GROUP. • DIRECTS ATTENTION TO THE
• IS USED ONLY WHEN THERE IS WHOLE GROUP.
DEFINITE AND LIMITED NUMBER
OF PERSON IN THE GROUP.
By Gurukul

PRONOUN
PRONOUN By Gurukul

•The word which comes in place of a noun to


avoid the repetition is of the noun is called a
pronoun.

•Ram is a good boy and he lives in Dubai.

•Hari is absent because he is ill.


FUNCTION OF PRONOUN By Gurukul

• SUBJECT OF SENTENCES.
• OBJECT OF SENTENCES.
READ THE SENTENCES By Gurukul

• I AM YOUNG.
• WE ARE YOUNG.
• YOU ARE YOUNG.
• HE/SHE/IT IS YOUNG
• THEY ARE YOUNG.
• (I/WE/YOU/HE/SHE/IT/THEY) ARE CALLED PERSONAL
PRONOUN AS THEY STAND FOR 3 PERSONS
By Gurukul
NUMBERS SINGULAR PLURAL
PERSONS

1ST I WE

2ND YOU YOU

3RD RAM, SITA ,HE THEY


ETC.
Forms of personal pronouns By Gurukul
FIRST PERSON ( MASCULIN OR FEMININE)

SINGULAR PLURAL
SUBJECTIVE I WE
POSSESSIVE MINE OURS
OBJECTIVE ME US

N.B- MY & OUR ARE


POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE
SECOND PERSON By Gurukul

SUBJECTIVE= YOU
POSSESSIVE= YOURS
OBJECTIVE= YOU

YOUR IS POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE


THIRD PERSON By Gurukul

MUSCULINE FEMININE NEUTER PLURAL FOR


ALL GENDER
SUBJECTIVE HE SHE IT THEY

POSSESSIVE HIS HERS ITS THEIRS

OBJECTIVE HIM HER IT THEM


REFLEXIVE AND EMPHETIC PRONOUNS By Gurukul

• IF ‘SELF’ IS ADDED TO MY, YOUR, HIM, HER & IT AND SELVES TO


THEM WE GET COMPOUND PRONOUN.
• TYPES OF COMPOUND PRONOUN
1. RELEXIVE PRONOUN
2. EMPHATIC PRONOUN
REFLEXIVE PRONOUN By Gurukul

• ACTION DONE BY THE SUBJECT TURNS BACK TO SUBJECT


• WORK AS OBJECT OF A SENTENCE
• READ THE SENTENCES GIVEN BELOW
1. I hurt myself.
2. You will hurt yourself
3. You will hurt yourselves
4. The horse hurt itself.
5. They hurt themselves.
REFLEXIVE PRONOUN By Gurukul

REFLEXIVE PRONOUN

USE AS DENOTES THE


OBJECT OF SAME PERSON
VERB AS DENOTED BY
THE SUBJECT
EMPHATIC PRONOUN By Gurukul

• IT IS USED TO PUT EMPHESIS AND ARE THEREFORE CALLED EMPHATIC


PRONOUN.
• WORK AS ADJECTIVE OR ADVERB
EXAMPLES
1. I ,MYSELF SAW HIM SMOKING NEAR THE SHOP.
2. WE WILL SEE TO IT OURSELVES
3. YOU,YOURSELF CAN BEST EXPLAIN
REFLEXIVE PRONOUN VS EMPHATICBy Gurukul
PRONOUN
NOTE- If the compound pronoun (myself, yourself,
himself, herself, itself, themselves, ourselves etc.)
are after VERB it is REFLEXIVE PRONOUN & If
before VERB then it is generally EMPHATIC
PRONOUN.
DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN By Gurukul

• WORDS USED FOR NOUNS TO POINT AT


SOMETHING/SOMEONE.
READ THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES
1. THIS IS A GOOD BOOK.
2. THAT IS YOUR HOUSE.
3. THESE ARE MY BOOKS.
4. THOSE ARE YOUR FRIENDS.
THESE AND THOSE By Gurukul

• ‘THESE’ IS USED TO AVOID REPETITION OF


PLURAL NOUN
• THESE’ IS USED TO POINT CLOSE THINGS.
• THESE ARE MY BOOKS.
• THOSE IS USED TO DENOTE REMOTE PLURAL
NOUN.
• THOSE ARE MY FRIENDS
INDEFINITE PRONOUN By Gurukul

• WORDS USED FOR NOUNS IN VAUGE OR


GENARAL MEANING IS CALLED INDEFINITE
PRONOUN.
• EXAMPLE- FEW , LITTLE, EVERYBODY, ANYBODY,
SOMEBODY, SOMETHING ETC.
• NOBODY IS PERFECT, FEW WERE PRESENT IN
THE MEETING.
DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUN By Gurukul

• WORDS USED FOR INDIVIDUALS OR OBJECTS


REFERING TO THEM AS ONE AT A TIME.
• FOR EXAMPLE—EACH OF THE BOYS WERE
PUNISHED.
• NEITHER OF THEM WERE PRESENT THEIR.
• EACH, EITHER, NEITHER ARE CALLED
DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUN.
USE OF EACH, EITHER AND NEITHER By Gurukul

• EACH IS USED TO DENOTE EVERYONE OF A NUMBER OF


PERSONS OR THINGS TAKEN SINGLY.
• EITHER MEANS ONE OR THE OTHER OF THE TWO
• NEITHER MEANS NOT THE ONE NOR THE OTHER OF THE
THING.
• EITHER AND NEITHER SHOULD BE USED WHEN WE ARE
TALKING ABOUT TWO THINGS OR PERSON.
• FOR MORE THAN WE USE—ANY, NO ONE, NONE.
RELATIVE PRONOUN By Gurukul

• I MET HARI. HARI HAD JUST RETURNED.


• I HAVE FOUND THE PEN, I LOST THE PEN.
• HERE IS THE BOOK. YOU LENT ME THE BOOK.
LET’S COMBINE-
• I MET HARI WHO HAD JUST RETURNED.
• I FOUND THE PEN WHICH I LOST.
• HERE IS THE BOOK THAT YOU LENT ME
HERE WHO, WHICH AND THAT CONNECT By Gurukul
THE TWO SENTENCES AND ALSO USED
INSTEAD OF NOUN, THUS THESE WORDS
WORK AS BOTH CONJUNCTION AND
PREPOSITION, THAT IS WHY IT IS KNOWN AS
CONJUNCTIVE PRONOUN. IT IS HOWEVER
CALLED RELATIVE PRONOUN, BECAUSE IT
REFERS OR RELATES TO SOME NOUN GOING
BEFORE WHICH IS CALLED ANTECEDENT.
USE OF RELATIVE PRONOUN By Gurukul
who/whom/which
• Who (use as subject) whom (use as object)= it
may refer to both singular and plural noun
• He is the person who threw stone at me.
• They never fail who die in great cause.
• Which is used for things without life and
animals.
• The book which I bought was very good.
• The horse which I recently bought was an Arab.
That/what By Gurukul

• That is used for both persons, animals and


things.
• I know the house that he lives in.
• This is the boy that I told you of.
• What is used with things only.
• I mean what I say.
• What man has done man can do.
Interrogative pronoun By Gurukul
who/whom/whose/which/what
• These pronouns are used to ask questions.
•Who are you?
•What is this in the water?
•Whom did you see?
•Which one you like?
•Whose pen is this?
Use By Gurukul

• Who/whose/whom= with person only


• Which= person+things
• What= things only

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