English: Use Of Pronouns With Conjunction (concord)

Use Of Pronouns With Conjunction (concord)

** Some conjunction like as well as, along with, in addition to, with etc are when used, the pronoun or the verb following it will be used as per the number & person of the first part of the subject (s1) .

Ex - Rita as well as her friends came to take her/their certificates from the college.

                        Here ‘Rita’ – s1

                        ‘Her friends’ – s2

                        So ‘her’ is correct answer.

Ex - I along with my parents visited my/our village yesterday.

                        I – S1

                        My parents – s2

** Either-or/ Neither-nor as conjunction will take pronoun as per the number/person of 2^nd part of the subject.

Ex – Either mohan or his brother claim his/their properties to be divided.

                        Mohan – s1

                        His brothers- s2

** Each/ every if placed before any subject, it takes singular pronoun.

Ex- each of the students in the class must do his/ their homework.

Ex – everybody can do if they/he try(s).

** ‘And’ makes the subject plural but if the subjects are preceded with each/every, then a singular pronoun is followed and if gender is replied, we must follow s2.

Ex - Rehman & Gopi tried their/his best to get through the test.

Ex – Each boy & each girl went to his/her/their house.

** ‘One’ is an indefinite pronoun. If it is used once in a sentence , it should be used through out whenever required in the sentence.

Ex- one must look after his/one’s belongings.

** For anyone/ everyone, someone, we can use his/her.

** Pronouns are always subject sensitive.

Ex- one of my friends has come out of his/their problems.

English: Pronoun

PRONOUN (for noun)

The word used instead of a noun is called pronoun

Ex-      Sam is my friend.

            I met Sam in a function. ( I met him in a function).

            Sam stays in hostel. ( He stays in hostel).

Here, we use “he” instead of Sam.

Kinds of pronoun

• personal --  I, we , she , her, mine etc
• demonstrative – this , that , these , those
• distributive – Either, neither
• indefinite – any, each, some
• reflexive – Myself, yourself, himself
• emphatic – myself, himself
• reciprocal – each other, one another
• interrogative – which, what

Case chart

Cases → Person ↓	Nominative		Objective		Possessive
	Singular	plural	Singular	plural	Singular	plural
1st person	I	We	Me	Us	My/mine	Our
2nd person	You	You	You	You	Your	your
3rd person	He/ she	They	Him/her	Them	His/her	Their

Rules

** pronouns are always case sensitive

Ex-      He is taller than me. (Wrong)

            He is taller than I.  (Right)

** when all the 3 persons are to be used together in a sentence, they should be used in 2,3,1 pattern.

Ex- you, he & I are declared as the best students.

** when subjects are in danger, at that time 123 pattern.

Ex- I, you and he are summoned by the court

English: Noun case

Noun – Case

** use of noun in different places of a sentence

1. Nominative/ subjective

If the noun is used as a subject in a sentence , the noun is said to be used in nominative case.

Ex- sidhharth has many friends

Here sidhharth is subjective case,

2. objective

If a noun is used as object in a sentence , the noun is objective case.

Ex- all the friends love sid.

Here sid is objective case.

N.B.

Direct object – Accusative case

Indirect object – Dative case

English: Interesting facts about Noun

Interesting facts about Noun

• Form/Use

**The nouns having singular form and singular use always.

Ex- hair, rice, tea, money, fish

** Singular form but plural use.

Ex- people, police , jury.

** Plural form but singular use.

Ex- Mathematics, Physics, civics, gallows

** Plural form and plural use.

Ex- trousers, glasses, scissors, twisters

• When nouns measurements are preceded by numbers or digits, the measurement doesn’t pluralize.

Ex –     2 liters (wrong format)

            2 liter (right form)

• Nouns having different meaning in different no.

Ex- wood, woods

      People, peoples

      Water, waters

      Quarters, quarters

      Custom, customs

      Wage, wages

      Iron, irons

• Some nouns having different meaning in different plural form.

Ex- formula – formulae, formulas

      Index – indices, indexes

English: Noun

There are 8 parts in a English speech,

They are

1. Noun
2. Pronoun
3. Adjective
4. Verb
5. Adverb
6. Preposition
7. Conjuction
8. Interjection

Noun

All the naming words can be considered as Noun.

It’s divided into 2 types

Proper --  The names of specific person, place or things.

Common – which is common for all.

Common noun again classified into following categories.

• Collective noun ---- (ex – class, army, crowd etc)
• Maternal Noun -----(ex – wood , steel , plastic, gold)
• Abstract Noun ----- (ex – Jealousy,  peace, beauty, envy etc)

Again, Noun is divided into following categories according to Gender

• Masculine --- Actor, lion, poet, boy
• Feminine – Actress, lioness , poetess, girl
• Common – Teacher , child , doctor
• Neuter ---  lifeless things , tree , house etc..

Subject/ Predicate

** Ask who/what before the verb to get the subject.

à India won the last match.

Who won the last match ?

Ans is --- India.

 So here subject is India

** subject is underlined in below examples.

àHere comes your friend,

à Has mohan paid the task?

** If there are more than one word in subject then it’s called sub Phrase.

à All students have applied for the post.

à my elder son did not accept the job offer.

à The constitute of India plays vital role in the society

** If there’s a verb in sub phrase then it’s called sub clause.

à Rahim died in an accident is a bad news.

Object

** Ask whom/what after the verb to get the subject.

N.B.

If asked by whom à Direct object

If asked by what à indirect object

àIndia defeated srilanka in the Bangladesh tour

India defeated whom ?

Ans- srilanka

So here object is srilanka.

àthey dismissed mr. gupta in the charge of misappropriation of fraud.

** If there are more than one word in object then it’s called Object Phrase.

à Smita learns classical music from an ustad.

** If there’s a verb in object phrase then it’s called object clause.

àmohan said raju had promised him a party