The Rule to Make Pronoun

c. Pronoun should not shift unnecessary in point of view. When writing a paper, be consistent in your use of first-, second-, or third-person pronouns. Table 2.1 Type of pronoun Type of pronoun Singular Plural First-person pronoun I mine, my, me We our, us Second-person pronoun You your You your Third-person pronoun He his, him She her It its They their, them If you start writing in the first-person I, do not jump suddenly to the second person you. Or you are writing in the third person they, do not shift unexpectedly to you. Look at the examples: Inconsistent One reason that I like living in the city is that you always have a wide choice of sports events to attend. The most common mistake people make is to let a you slip into their writing after they start with another pronoun. Consistent One reason that I like living in the city is that I always have a wide choice of sports events to attend. 4 According to Rozakis, the meaning of a pronoun comes from its antecedent, the noun or pronoun to which it refers. Your speech and writing will be confusing if your pronoun reference is unclear. Carelessly placed pronouns can create unintentionally funny sentences as well as confusing ones. There are two ways to prevent pronoun confusion. 4 Langan, Op.Cit. pp.197-203 1 A pronoun must clearly refer to a single antecedent. A common writing and speech problem occurs when the same pronoun refers to more than one antecedent. Remember that a pronoun replaces a noun. To make sure that your writing and speech are clear, always use the noun first before you use the pronoun. Clarify the sentence by replacing the unclear pronouns with nouns. That way, all the remaining pronouns will clearly refer to a single antecedent. Guilt and unkindness can be emotionally destructive to you and your friends. You must get rid of them. The word them can refer to guilt, unkindness, or your friends. Here are two ways you could rewrite this sentence: Guilt and unkindness can be emotionally destructive to you and your friends. You must get rid of these issues. OR Guilt and unkindness can be emotionally destructive to you and your friends. You must get rid of these destructive emotions 2 Place pronouns close to their antecedents. If too many phrases come between a pronoun and its antecedent, the sentence can be difficult to read and understand. This can happen even if the intervening material is logically related to the rest of the sentence. Consider the following sentence: After meeting a few guests, the President entered the reception. At that point, Senator Chin and the other elected officials began to pose for pictures. Even so, he did not join them. In this sentence he is too far away from its antecedent, the President. One solution is to replace he with the President. The other solution is to rewrite the sentences to move the pronoun closer. After meeting a few guests, the President entered the reception. At that point, Senator Chin and the other elected officials began to pose for pictures. Even so, the President did not join them. OR After meeting a few guests, the President entered the reception. He did not join Senator Chin and the other elected officials, even though they began to pose for pictures. 5 From the definitions about the rule to make pronoun above, the writer takes a conclusion that there are three important things that must be emphasized in make pronoun, they are: 1 A pronoun must refer clearly to the word it replaces 2 A pronoun must agree in number with the word or words it replaces 3 Place pronouns close to their antecedents.

3. The Kinds of Pronoun.

Pronouns are divided into eight groups depending on their meaning and how they are used in a sentence. 6 There are: 1 Personal pronouns 5 Demonstrative pronouns 2 Possessive pronouns 6 Relative pronoun 3 Reflexive pronouns 7 Indefinite pronouns 4 Intensive pronoun 8 Interrogative pronoun. 7 Leech gives more detail information about personal pronoun and reflexive pronoun as follow: Personal pronouns I, my, me, mine, you, your, yours, we, our, us, ours, they, their, them, theirs, he, his, she, her, hers, it, its Personal pronoun divides into four types: 5 Laurie Rozakis, English Grammar for Utterly Confuse, New York: McGraw Hill, 2003, pp. 24-25 6 Ibid. p.25 7 Ibid. pp . 9-12 a. Personal pronoun as subject b. Personal pronoun as object c. Possessive adjective d. Possessive pronoun Reflexive pronouns - self, - selves Reflexive pronouns are used as objects, complements and often prepositional complement where these elements have the same references as the subject of the clause or sentences. Notice that in some cases the reflexive pronouns receives nuclear stress, and in other cases are not, example: Carolyn gets a seat by herself. Pay attention to the two important thing of reflexive pronoun: a. In the plural –self become –selves b. Be careful that you do not use any of the following incorrect forms as reflexive pronouns: Incorrect Correct He believes in hisself He believes in himself We drove the children ourself We drone the children ourselves 8 For intensive pronoun and demonstrative pronoun is explained by Farmer. Intensive Pronouns Intensive pronouns have the same form as reflexive pronouns that used for emphasis. Their function as appositives and are often placed next to the noun or pronoun they emphasize intensively. They sometimes appear at the end of a sentence. Examples: Fernanda herself received the prize money. The boys did the laundry themselves. 8 Geoffery Leech and Jan Svartvik, A Communicative Grammar of English: Third Editions, London: Longman, 2002. p.351