{"id":78,"date":"2017-11-13T21:16:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T21:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/?p=78"},"modified":"2017-11-13T21:22:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T21:22:56","slug":"english-362-chapter-8-personal-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/2017\/11\/13\/english-362-chapter-8-personal-pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"English 362, Chapter 8: Personal Pronouns"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Heyo Pwips! We are on to chapter 8! In this chapter we will focus on the noun phrase. An important element of the noun phrase is the\u00a0pronoun. Pronouns\u00a0are substitutes for noun phrases (they take the place of a noun).\u00a0There are several types of pronouns, but the set called <strong>personal pronouns<\/strong> are the core of this pronoun system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Personal Pronouns:<\/h2>\n<p>Personal Pronouns have four aspects to their forms: Person, Gender, Number, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">and Case<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Person<\/strong> refers to first-person form, second-person form, and third-person form.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gender<\/strong>: The third person personal pronouns have masculine and feminine forms (he, she, his, her, him, etc.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number<\/strong>: refers to the fact that pronouns have singular and plural forms<\/p>\n<p><strong>Case<\/strong>: a distinction that refers to how a word functions in the sentence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There are 3 types of case: <strong>Nominative<\/strong> (means the word functions as a subject in the sentence), <strong>Objective<\/strong> (means the word functions as an object of some kind) and <strong>Possessive<\/strong> (means the word indicates possession).<\/p>\n<p>Now let\u2019s look at examples of these pronoun forms:<\/p>\n<h5>Personal Pronouns in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Nominative<\/strong> <\/span>Case:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>First person singular\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I<\/span><\/li>\n<li>First person, plural\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">we<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Second person, singular\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">you<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Second person, plural\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">you<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Third person, singular\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">he, she, it<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Third person, plural\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">they<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Personal Pronouns in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Objective<\/span> Case<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>First person, singular&#8211;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">me<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">First person, plural\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">us<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Second person, singular\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">you<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Second person, plural\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">you<\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Third person, singular\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">him, her, it<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Third person, plural\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">them<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Personal Pronouns in Possessive Case<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">First Person, singular\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">my<\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">First person, plural\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">our<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Second person, singular\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">your<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Second person, plural\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">your<\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Third person, singular\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">his, her, its<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Third person, plural\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">their<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Our<\/span> family turns into a flock of swindling, mafia vultures when it comes to left over dessert!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>That is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">my<\/span> pumpkin pie!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Mom put <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">your<\/span> pie in the fridge.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>In <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">my<\/span> family, you have to mark <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">your<\/span> food, hide it, and play guard patrol during mealtimes.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is a special sub-category of Possessive Pronouns: <strong>Independent Possessive\u00a0Pronouns<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">First Person, singular\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">mine<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">First person, plural\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ours<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Second person, singular\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">yours<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Second person, plural\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">yours<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Third person, singular\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">his, hers<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Third person, plural\u2014<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">theirs<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">These are independent because they can stand alone in a sentence and don&#8217;t have a following noun that they refer to like the previous possessive pronouns:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>That pie is mine.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Yours is in the fridge.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heyo Pwips! We are on to chapter 8! In this chapter we will focus on the noun phrase. An important element of the noun phrase is the\u00a0pronoun. Pronouns\u00a0are substitutes for noun phrases (they take the place of a noun).\u00a0There are several types of pronouns, but the set called personal pronouns are the core of this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/2017\/11\/13\/english-362-chapter-8-personal-pronouns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English 362, Chapter 8: Personal Pronouns<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[561789],"tags":[637805,2067,638186,399,44108,638715,637417,638378,638506],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-362","tag-chapter-8","tag-gender","tag-nominative","tag-number","tag-objective","tag-person","tag-personal-pronouns","tag-possessive","tag-pronoun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}