Indefine and Impersonal Pronouns

What kind of nouns do indefinite pronouns refer to?

• Specific and known nouns

• Unspecified nouns (people, places, things, or ideas)

• Only physical objects

• Verbs in past tense

Choose the group that contains only indefinite pronouns:

• He, She, It

• Somebody, Anything, Nowhere

• Yours, Mine, Ours

• Everyone, They, You

You use pronouns like

someone

or

something

in ____________________ sentences.

• Negative

• Affirmative

• Interrogative

• Indefinite

The pronoun

_________

refers to yourself in a formal way.

• One

• body

• thing

• where

The impersonal pronoun

_________

is used when there is no antecedent.

• One

• You

• They

• It

The pronoun

they

is used impersonally to refer to ____________________.

• Objects

• One or more people when gender is known

• Animals

• Wheather

Match each pronoun with its correct use:

1. Anywhere –

2. Everybody –

3. Nothing –

4. One –

a) Refers to all people

b) Refers to no thing (negative)

c) Formal way to refer to yourself

d) Refers to an unspecified place

• 1-d, 2-a, 3-b, 4-c

• 1-b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-a

• 1-c, 2-b, 3-a, 4-d

• 1-a, 2-d, 3-b, 4-c