Identify Pronouns!

Lets have relaxing exercise for pronouns. You need to listen to the song carefully. By referring to lyric I provided below, try to identify and fill in the blanks with the correct PRONOUNS…Good luck and enjoy the song ^_^..

"Back at One" - Brian Mcknight

It's undeniable that ____ should be together
It's unbelievable how ____ used to say that I'd fall never
The basis is need to know, if ____ don't know just how ____ feel
Then let ____ show ____ now that I'm for real
If all things in time, time will reveal
Yeah..

One... ____'re like a dream come true
Two... just wanna be with ____
Three... girl it's plain to see that you’re the only one for ____ and
Four... repeat steps one through three
Five... make ____ fall in love with ____
If ever ____ believe my work is done

then ____ start Back at One (yeah)

So Incredible the way things work ________ out
And all emotional, once ____ know what it's all about babe
And undesirable for us to be apart
Never would of made ____ very far
Cause ____ know that you've got the keys to ____ heart

Cause One... ____'re like a dream come true
Two... just wanna be with ____
Three... girl it's plain to see that you’re the only one for ____
Four... repeat steps one through three
Five... make ____ fall in love with ____
If ever ____ believe my work is done

then ____ start Back at One..

Say farewell to the dark of night

____ see the coming of the sun
____ feel like a little child whose life has just begun
____ came and breathed new life into this lonely heart of ____
____ threw out the life line just in the nick of Time...

One... ____'re like a dream come true
Two... just wanna be with ____
Three... girl it's plain to see... that you’re the only one for ____...

Girl and Four... repeat steps one through three
Five... make ____ fall in love with ____
If ever ____ believe my work is done... then ____ start Back at One..

You can check the answers for this exercise by emailing your answers to me at ariey52@yahoo.com and I will respond ASAP.

Pronouns~

Pronouns are small words that take the place of a noun. We can use a pronoun instead of a noun.

Personal Pronouns

Noun, etc	Pronoun (subject)	Pronoun (object or after a preposition)
John, that man Siti, the lady The cow, The meeting	I You He She It	Me You Him Her It
John and I The men The enemies You and John	We They You	Us Them You

1)   A personal pronoun can be used as the subject of a verb.

Eg: He scored a goal.

2)   It is also used as the object of a verb.

Eg: She recognized him at once.

3)   We use the objective form of the pronoun after a preposition.

Eg: I laughed at her.

Possessive Pronouns

Possessive Adjective & noun	Possessive Pronoun
This is my room. This is your pen. It is his ring. It is her flask. That is our car. That is their camera.	This is mine. This is yours. It is his. It is hers. That is ours. That is theirs.

1)   We use a possessive pronoun to replace an adjective and a noun.

Eg: Those are my shoes. They are mine.

2)   Note that no apostrophe is used in ‘his’, ‘hers’, ‘yours’, or ‘theirs’.

Eg: Those comics are ours.

Reflexive Pronouns

Personal Pronoun	Reflexive Pronoun
I You (singular) He She It We You (plural) They	Myself Yourself Himself Herself Itself Ourselves Yourselves themselves

1)   We use reflexive pronoun as the direct object of a verb.

Eg: He taught himself how to swim.

2)   The reflexive pronoun can also be used as the indirect object of a verb, or after a preposition.

Eg: He cut a slice of cake for himself.

3)   When we use reflexive pronouns to emphasize the importance of a noun or a pronoun, we call them emphatic pronouns.

Eg: You yourself should know what to do.

Prepositions~

A preposition is a word which shows relationships among other words in the sentence.  The relationships include direction, place, time, cause, manner and amount. In the sentence ‘She went to the store’, ‘to’ is a preposition which shows direction.  In the sentence ‘He came by bus’, ‘by’ is a preposition which shows manner.  In the sentence ‘They will be here at three o'clock’, ‘at’ is a preposition which shows time and in the sentence ‘It is under the table’, ‘under’ is a preposition which shows place. Here are few rules you need to remember when using prepositions:

1)   We usually place prepositions in front of the words that they relate to. For examples:

I bought this jar at the bazaar. She is clever at cooking. She was hiding the camera from her brother.

2)   However, in a question, the preposition comes after the word that it governs. For examples:

What are you looking for? Who is she smiling at? Who is this book written for?

3)   The preposition is usually placed at the end of an infinitive.

Who are they going to stay with now? The water is not hot enough to boil the noodles in. He has no one to talk to now.

4)   In defining clauses, the preposition comes at the end.

This is the vase I was telling you about. The painting he is pointing at costs 200 dollars. We are talking about the house we used to live in.

Below are some common prepositions of time and place and examples of their use.

Prepositions of time: ·         at two o'clock ·         on Wednesday ·         in an hour, in January; in 1992 ·         for a day

Prepositions of place: ·         at my house ·         in New York, in my hand ·         on the table ·         near the library ·         across the street ·         under the bed ·         between the books

Conjunctions~

A conjunction is a word that connects other words or groups of words. There are 3 types of conjunction which are coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions and correlative conjunctions.

Coordinating conjunctions are conjunctions which connect two equal parts of a sentence.  The most common ones are and, or, but, and so.

·         ‘and’ is used to join or add words together                      Eg:  They ate and drank. ·         ‘or’ is used to show choice or possibilities             Eg:  He will be here on Monday or Tuesday. ·         ‘but’ is used to show opposite or conflicting ideas             Eg:  She is small but strong. ·         ‘so’ is used to show result             Eg:  I was tired so I went to sleep.

Subordinating conjunctions connect two parts of a sentence that are not equal and will be discussed more in another class.  For now, you should know some of the more common subordinating conjunctions such as:

after                   before                unless     although             if                        until     as                       since                   when     because              than                    while

Correlative conjunctions are pairs of conjunctions that work together.  The most common correlative conjunctions are:

both . . .and       either . . . or       neither . . . nor       not only . . . but also For examples: - Both Jan and Meg are good swimmers. - You can borrow either this book or that one. - Neither David nor Peter attended the meeting. - Ali not only won the competition but also became   the best participant.