Indefinite Pronouns

Indefinite Pronouns

• What is an indefinite Pronoun?

The Indefinite Pronouns

It is a pronoun that you use when you want to indicate to things or people

without determining who or what they are.

in other words, they are used to refer to non specified people or things.

• There are singular indefinite pronouns, plural indefinite pronouns and variable indefinite pronouns:

Different types of Indefinite pronouns

• First: the singular ones.

For people:

Everybody - everyone
Somebody   - some one
nobody    - no one
anybody   - anyone.

Examples:

Relative Pronouns

Relative pronouns

This is an important type of English pronouns and you really need to master it as much as possible.

what are relative pronouns?

These pronouns are:

(Who, Whom, Which, That and Whose)

• I drove the car that I got for my birthday.

(I drove the car) is (main clause)

(that) is (relative pronoun)

(I got for my birthday) is ( relative clause).

Relative Pronouns In English

Usage of relative pronouns

• A relative pronoun introduces a relative clause and there are two types of relative clauses

defining and non defining relative clauses.

First: defining relative clauses: