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Singular Plural

Persons Personal Reflexive Personal Reflexive
Pronouns Pronouns Pronouns Pronouns
First person I myself we ourselves

Second person you yourself you yourselves
he himself

Third person she herself they themselves
it itself

Practice Time 6

Fill in the blanks with reflexive pronouns from those given in the help box. Some pronouns will
be used more than once.

herself itself himself yourself myself ourselves themselves

1. He fell down and hurt ______________.

2. Nobody helped me while I was trying to lift the load ______________.
3. Snow White saw ______________ in the mirror.
4. The robbers told ______________ that they were safe.
5. If we do not work hard, we have only ______________ to blame for the poor results.
6. “Have you really cooked this ______________?”

7. People believed that the bell rang by ______________.
8. I hurt ______________ while cutting the vegetables.
9. We enjoyed ___________ at the party.

10. The little girl sat by ___________.

Let’s Learn Indefinite Pronouns

Indefinite pronouns are used to refer to people or things in general.

The pronouns ending in -body or -one refer to people.
l The pronouns ending in -thing, refer to things.
Pronouns Indefinite pronouns are of two types: singular indefinite pronouns and plural indefinite
l

pronouns.
Singular indefinite pronouns are another, anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, enough,
everyone, everybody, everyone, everything, less, little, much, neither, nobody, no one,
nothing, one, other, somebody, someone, something.

Plural indefinite pronouns are both, few, fewer, many, others, several.

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