Posted on 09/14/2023 11:18:03 AM PDT by DallasBiff
As you read the following passage, identify all of the pronouns, as well as what type of pronoun each is. Remember, there are four types of pronouns we learned about: personal, demonstrative, indefinite, and relative pronouns.
(1) Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (1872–1936) was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. (2) In 1909, he became world famous for making the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft, winning a prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper. (3) The prize was widely seen as a way to gain cheap publicity when it was first announced by the paper—no one thought this feat could actually be accomplished. (4) The Paris newspaper Le Matin commented that there was no chance of the prize being won. (5) Blériot would prove everyone wrong.
There are no pronouns in this sentence.
This sentence contains the personal pronoun he. He is a singular, subject case, masculine third-person pronoun.
This sentence has two pronouns: it, no one, and that.
It is a singular, subject case, neutral third-person pronoun.
No one is an indefinite pronoun.
This is a demonstrative pronoun; in this instance it’s being used like an adjective.
This sentence contains the relative pronoun that; it connects commented to the statement made by Le Matin.
This sentence contains the indefinite pronoun everyone.
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Oh thank goodness I clicked on it.
I was certain it was an elementary class assignment on woke pronouns.
How do grandparents help their grands with homework these days.
Incorrect. The third sentence contains "this" not "that" which is also a pronoun.
Is this what they are teaching in Chemistry these days?
Hmm. Maybe that’s why it took me two times reading through it for me to understand what was going on. Perhaps something got lost in the formatting.
They start of with
“(1) Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (1872–1936) ....he became world famous ....
There are no pronouns in this sentence.”
Huh? The personal pronoun “he” is there.
And then reading further I figured out what they were doing. Sort of.
“This sentence contains the relative pronoun that; it connects commented to the statement made by Le Matin.”
Huh?
Or I’m just stupid. (I never was good at all of the technical grammar stuff.)
Witch Hunt
the act of unfairly looking for and punishing people who are accused of having opinions that are believed to be dangerous or evil.
The Britannica Dictionary
He appears is in the second sentence, not the first.
I’m pretty sure that the “This sentence contains no pronouns” is the sentence in which they are referring to.
Similar to this sentence contains the word sentence.
And yes - one of the ways I was trying to understand it was if they viewed the entire biography as one sentence.
Seems like a “Who’s one First” routine for grammar.
Yes- the “this” and “that” got me confused as well.
There are no pronouns in the first sentence. The word he you mention is in the second sentence.
They do not teach a lot of grammar in US public schools, and few private ones, so most Americans know only a little bit unless they studied a foreign language, and sometimes not then either.
I didn’t see the other replied about the 1st and 2nd sentences —I didn’t mean to pile on :(
This and that and other pronouns can act as either demonstrative or relative pronouns, depending on how they are used.
See my post 8. I don’t see how the text book was referring to the biography piece at all in the first question.
Never mind. I get it now.
I sure hope they had it formatted better for the students.
Sentence 1) This sentence has no pronouns.
Sentence 2) This sentence...
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