Adjetivos Y Pronombres

Word groups punctual review – Adjectives

and pronouns

In order to be able to communicate effectively and to understand what is being communicated correctly it is

necessary to understand different types of words and word groups. The most important of these word

groups are nouns, verbs, adjectives and prepositions. It is how you use these words, and their forms, that

makes what you are trying to convey understandable and intelligent.

Nouns, as you probably know, are names of people, places or things. Verbs are action words, and

adjectives are description words. We are going to take a deeper look at these word groups and their

different forms.

Nouns are used to identify the subject of a sentence. If we did not use nouns, we would not know who or

what you were talking or writing about. The use of nouns is continued throughout a text or conversation to

tie all of the information together. Nouns may be replaced with pronouns or possessive adjectives. You

know some of the forms of the pronouns and the possessive adjectives but we are going to review them

again. Following is a table with a list of the pronouns in their different forms and possessive adjectives.

Pronouns may replace nouns but only after the subject has been introduced or the other person or persons

know who or what you are talking about. Here is an example

Personal or

Subject

Pronouns

Possessive

Adjectives

Possessive

Pronouns

Object

Pronouns

Reflexive

Pronouns

I my mine me myself

you your yours you yourself

he his his him himself

she her hers her herself

it its its it itself

we our ours us ourselves

you your yours you yourselves

they their theirs them themselves

1. RandersOpenWater swimmer. Wikimedia

(2009).

Mario is a good swimmer. Mario swims every morning. Mario’s

brother also swims.

Reading or listening to this example is rather monotonous. This is why

we use pronouns to replace, in this case, the proper noun Mario.

Now read these sentences

Mario is a good swimmer. He swims every morning. His brother also

swims.

Looks better? YES! Sounds better? YES!

Possessive Adjectives are used to describe a noun and like other adjectives come before the noun. They

are also considered a Possessive Pronoun.

Examples:

My horse is faster then hers.

My is the possessive adjective.

horse is the noun.

hers is the possessive pronoun.

Remember that there no apostrophes with possessive

adjectives or with possessive pronouns. Apostrophes

are used only with possessive nouns.

2. Horse Ride. Feser (2009).

3. Viljo koirarannalla 9. Wikimedia (2010).

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