English pronoun

Pronouns in English, as in Russian, serve to replace nouns. You can distinguish personal, possessive, reflexive, demonstrative, indefinite and negative pronouns.

Instruction manual

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Personal Pronouns (personal pronouns) replace nouns in the nominative case. There are 3 persons, singular and plural. The personal pronoun of 1 singular is I (I). The peculiarity of this word is that it is always written in capital letter. The first person in the plural is we. The second person and singular is the one pronoun you (you, you). The third person singular is he (he), she (she), it (he, she, it). The pronoun it replaces nouns in the sentence for inanimate objects, as well as animals and the word "baby". The third person plural is they.

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Possessive Pronouns (possessive pronouns) are used to indicate the subject's affiliation. There are two main forms: attachable and absolute. After the possessive pronoun in the first form (my, our, yours, his, her, its, their), the corresponding noun is always used, for example, “my flat” (“my flat”), and after the pronouns in the absolute form (mine, ours, yours, his, hers, theirs) the noun is not used. For example, "This flat is mine".

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Reflexive Pronouns (reflexive pronouns) are formed from possessive by the suffix "-self", which is added to the possessive pronoun in the singular, and the suffix "-selves" - in the plural. In Russian, they correspond to the particle "-s (s)", for example, "Don’t cut yourself" ("Do not cut yourself"), as well as reflexive or reinforcing pronouns: yourself, yourself, yourself, yourself, yourself, yourself, yourself. For example, "Do it yourself!" ("Do it yourself!").

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Demonstrative Pronouns (indicative pronouns) are used to indicate objects that are close (this - this, this, this, these - these) and in the distance (that - that, that, that, those - those). These pronouns include the word "such" - "such", which indicates the quality of the subject.

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Another group of pronouns is indefinite and negative. The first ones are some and any, meaning "some, some, some, " and their derivatives somebody, anybody (someone), something, anything (something), somewhere, anywhere (somewhere- then). In this case, the indefinite pronoun some and its derivatives are used in affirmative sentences, and any and its derivatives - in interrogative and negative with the particle not. For example, "I'd like to read some book" ("I would like to read some book"), but "Have you got any book?" ("Do you have any book?"). Also in the English language there is a negative pronoun no (no) and its derivatives - nobody (nobody), nothing (nothing), nowhere (nowhere).