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Lect. dr. Imola-Ágnes FARKAS Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Letters, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca [email protected], [email protected] Morphology Spring 2017

Pronoun 1. Definition 2. Classification 1. personal pronouns - distinction of … - number mismatch - gender mismatch - a note on it 2. possessive pronoun 3. reflexive pronouns 4. reciprocal pronouns 5. demonstrative pronouns 6. interrogative pronouns 7. relative pronouns 8. indefinite pronouns Practice 1: Explain the difference between the following pairs of sentences: 1a. Who is it? It’s I. – 1b. Who is it? It’s me. 2a. the man to whom I spoke – 2b. the man who/whom I spoke to 3a. Tom and Mary talk to themselves. – 3b. Tom and Mary talk to each other. 4a. What is he like? – 4b. What does he look like? 5a. What do you need this for? – 5b. For what do you need this? 6a. The team, who are just getting their tickets, will meet in 5 minutes. – 6b. The team, which played well, has left the stadium. Practice 2: Insert the suitable form of the pronoun: 1. They are all clever except _____. (he) 2. It was ____ who chose the colour. (he) 3. It is ____ he puts the blame on. (they) 4. I blame you as much as ____. I blame you both. (he) 5. I blame you as much as ____. Both of us blame you. (he) Practice 3: Put the following into the correct order: 1. I gave (he, it). 2. I gave (the book, he) 3. I gave (Mary, the book) Practice 4: In the following sentences, identify the pronouns and those determiners which are pronoun look-alikes. Name the pronoun types you have identified: 1. This is a very curious omission, because it was a subject, one must suppose, which would have interested readers. 2. He seems to have been conducted round this museum by those in charge, and they told him some old stories about the place. 3. The multitude of vessels that invest this river is so vast that no one who should see or hear would believe it. 4. Such was the terrible rout which Kubai met....