Monday, August 5, 2013

Singular and Plural Pronouns

A singular pronoun replaces a singular noun or a singular pronoun. A plural pronoun replaces a plural noun or plural pronoun. Take note that pronouns can either be singular or plural.

Types of Pronouns

1) Personal Pronoun – represents people or things. There are two kinds of personal pronoun: subjective and objective. Subjective pronoun is a pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence; while objective pronouns is a pronouns that is used as the object of the sentence. Personal pronouns are: I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they, me, you, him, her, us, them.

Pronoun

A pronoun is a word that substitutes for a noun or another pronoun. The word or phrase replaced by a pronoun is called antecedent.

Examples:
George planned George’s travel itinerary.
George planned his travel itinerary.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Possessive Case of Nouns

The possessive case of a noun is used to show ownership or possession. Forming the possessive case of a noun can be done by adding an apostrophe and/or letter s depending on the rule where it falls.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Masculine and Feminine Nouns

Masculine gender refers to a male person or animal. Feminine gender refers to a female person or animal.

Gender of Nouns

1) Masculine gender refers to a male person or animal.

Examples:
father, king, tailor, groom, rooster, stallion