P ronouns Madison Chase Valerie Interrogative Pronouns A pronoun used in order to ask a question Examples Who what which who whom and whose Rules for interrogative pronouns ID: 321289
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Interrogative and Relative Pronouns
MadisonChaseValerieSlide2
Interrogative Pronouns
A pronoun used in order to ask a question. Examples--Who, what, which, who, whom, and whose Slide3
Rules for interrogative
pronouns 1. The
“who”
pronoun in the English language always refers to an animate object.2
. The
“what”
pronoun in English usually refers to inanimate objects (it has the function of an attribute in a sentence), but sometimes it can refer to animate objects – in cases when someone is interested in the object’s occupation (profession).Slide4
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3. The “which”
pronoun in English has the selective meaning. It can be used both for animate and inanimate objects.4
. The
“whose”
pronoun refers only to animate objects.Slide5
Relative Pronouns A relative pronoun is a pronoun that introduces a relative clause. It is called a "relative" pronoun because it "relates" to the word that it modifies. Here is an example:
ExamplesThe person who phoned me last night is my teacher."How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"Slide6
Name the interrogative pronoun
Who was that creepy person standing outside the school?Which room is used for reading in?Who was eating to much cheese?Slide7
Answer
WhoWhich WhoSlide8
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