What are Pronouns?

A pronoun is used to avoid the repetition of a noun or noun phrases.

For example:

1. Ravi arrived late. He had high fever.

2. I wrote to my sister Ekta what she should do.

In these sentences he ,I and she are Pronouns.

He is used for Ravi ,She is used for Ekta. 

👉 Kinds of Pronouns:

💁 Personal Pronouns :

Pronouns that are used for persons are things are called Personal Pronouns. For example: I ,we, you, he ,she, it ,they, him, her, us, them, etc.

💁 Relative Pronouns:

Relative Pronouns are those Pronouns which relate to nouns which have gone before. For example: who ,which ,that, what ,whoever, whatever , whom.

💁 Interrogative Pronouns :

Interrogative Pronouns are those Pronouns which ask some questions For Example: who, which, what, when.

💁 Demonstrative Pronouns: 

These are those Pronouns which point out the object or objects for which they are used. For example: This, That ,These, Those.

💁 Reflexive Pronouns :

Reflexive Pronouns are those pronouns which refer to the action returning to the doer. For example: myself, ourselves, yourself, himself ,herself, itself, themselves.

💁 Emphasising Pronouns:

Emphasising Pronouns are the Pronouns which lay emphasis. For example myself ourselves etc.

💁  Possessive Pronouns:

Possessive pronouns show that something belongs to someone. The possessive pronouns are my, our, your, his, her, its, and their. There's also an “independent” form of each of these pronouns: mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, and theirs.

💁  Indefinite Pronouns:

 Indefinite pronouns do not refer to a specific person, place, or thing. In English, there is a particular group of indefinite pronouns formed with a quantifier or distributive preceeded by any, some, every and no.

What are Nouns??

 NOUNS

A noun tells us what someone or something is called .It is the name of a person ,a place ,a thing ,a creature ,a quality ,an action or a state of being.

Kinds of Nouns 

Nouns are of five kinds 

1. Proper Nouns : Narinder Modi , Patiala , the Ganga , Taj Mahal etc.

2 Common Nouns : River, city ,man ,students ,park ,statue etc .

3Collective Nouns: flock, fleet ,class, battalion, crowd etc.

4 Abstract Nouns: kindness, sickness, happiness, anger etc.

5 Material Nouns :silver, steel, cotton, iron etc.

All common nouns fall into two classes:

Countable and Uncountable nouns

1. Nouns that can be counted are called countable nouns.

A Bird         one bird        three birds

An apple      one apple      five apples

2.Nouns that cannot be counted are called Uncountable Nouns.

   Water, milk soup, oil, rice, sugar,butter,education etc...

If the noun is uncountable we use some, a little. Many nouns have both countable and uncountable uses; for example, soda is countable in "give me three sodas", but uncountable in "he likes soda".

Abstract Noun:

Abstract nouns are a type of noun that you can't see or touch. A noun is a person, place or thing. ... An abstract noun may include an aspect, concept, idea, experience, state of being, trait, quality, feeling, or other entity that can't be experienced with the five senses.

Collective Noun:

It denotes the number of persons or things grouped together as one complete whole: crowd, flock etc.

Material Nouns

The substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed: Stone is a durable material. ... materials, the articles or apparatus needed to make or do something: writing materials.

What is a Sentence??

A Sentence is a combination of words which give a complete meaning. There are various types of sentences depending on their structure and function.

Sentence is a set of words that contain

1. Subject

2. Predicate

Note that the predicate always contains a verb. Sometimes, in fact, the predicate is only a verb.

So we can say that a sentence must contain at least a subject and verb.

Note: A sentence always begin with a capital letter and ends with either full stop (.) or exclamation (!) or question mark(?).

Let's check the following examples:

1. The snake moves and hide behind the bushes.

2. What a delicious food!

3. Have you paid the school fees?

KINDS OF SENTENCES

There are Four kinds of sentences:

1. Assertive or Declarative Sentence:

✓ A sentence that makes a statement or assertion is called an assertive or declarative sentence.

For example, 

➡️ India is in Asia.

➡️ She can never cheat anybody.

✓ An assertive sentence can be affirmative (Positive), see sentence 1 or negative, see sentence 2.

✓ All assertive sentences end with stop.

2. Interrogative Sentences:

✓ A sentence that ask a question or makes an enquiry is called Interrogative sentence.

For example,

➡️ Can you relate the whole incident?

➡️ Who is that lady?

✓ Some questions are Yes/ No questions

✓ Some are Wh... questions

✓ A question mark (❓)

 is put at the end of an interrogative sentence.

3. Imperative Sentence:

✓ A sentence that expresses an advice, an order, a command, a forbidding or an entreaty is called an imperative sentence.

For example,

➡️ Avoid Fast food.

➡️ Do me a favour, please.

➡️ Take off your shoes.

➡️ Don't pluck flowers.

4. Exclamatory Sentences:

✓ A sentence that expresses a sudden or strong feeling is called exclamatory sentence.

For example,

➡️ Hurrah! India has won the hockey series.

➡️ What a beautiful dress!

✓ A mark of exclamation ( ❗) is put at the end of an exclamatory sentence.

RECOMMENDED LINKS

#https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sentence

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# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(linguistics)