Kamis, 28 April 2016

Indefinite Pronouns and Reflexive Pronoun



Indefinite Pronouns

Indefinite Pronouns is not used for anyone or somebody, specific noun, animal, or total. This indefinite pronouns is not clear, kind of indefinite pronouns follow as :

each, each other, one another, someone, somebody, somewhere, any, anyone, anybody, anything, something, anywhere, one, another, the other, the others, everybody, everyone, everything, nobody, no-one, none.

Kinds of indefinite pronoun is two difference useditas singular and plural, attention under table as :

Example Sentence Indefinite Pronouns

Indefinite Pronouns
Meaning
Example sentence
SINGULAR (TUNGGAL)
Another
Another, for people/ singular noun
That cake is delicious. May I have another?

I don’t like this pen. I want another.
Anyone/ Anybody
Indefinite his people who. (anyone/anybody)
Can anybody do this puzzle?

Don’t equal anyone to God.
Anything
Object/ something indeterminate. (Anything)
Do you have anything useful in your suitcase?
Each
Every, each.
I have two watches, each costs Rp. 100.000,-

The dancers are beautiful, each has her own style.
Everybody/ Everyone
Every/ All people.
Everybody uses the phone for long distance communication.
Everything
Everything
The thief has stolen everything inside his bag.
Nobody/ No-one
Nobody
I knocked the door many times, but nobody opened the door.
One
the indeterminate
This car is new, but that one is old.

He looks for one who stole his wallet.
Someone/ Somebody
someone
Somebody help me, please.

He killed someone in the river last month.
Something
unknown object
I promise that I will give her something in her birthday.
The other
certain only objects
She will not tell the other that story but me.
PLURAL (JAMAK)
Each other
One another, for two people
They help each other.
One another
One another, for more than two peole.
We love one another.
The others
another, to a person/object plural indefinite
I prefer stay here and the others go to the swimming pool.

These cars are very expensive. I want others.
SINGULAR OR PLURAL (TUNGGAL ATAU JAMAK)
Any
Anything, that is anywhere, indiscriminately.
Do you have any information about this case?
Anywhere
Places that are not necessarily. (Anywhere / everywhere / anywhere.)
I will go anywhere in the world.

I swear, I will not go anywhere and I will stay here.
None
None
I have downloaded that album and it contains 11 songs, but none is good.
Somewhere
The place is not known / determined.
(Somewhere)
I think my wallet was dropped somewhere.

NOTE :
Sometime somebody is used pronoun somewhere for positive sentence (+) and anywhere for negative sentence (-), actually it’s not problem, pronoun anywhere sometime it’s able to use positive sentence.

Example :
-          I will go anywhere in the world

So, I hope to use pronoun with contex that sentence please


Reflexive Pronoun

Reflexive Pronoun is used for subject (personal pronoun or animal) received action from verb (reciprocal action) in the sentences.
pronoun are : myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself,  for singular, and yourselves, ourselves, and themselves for plural form is identic with intensive pronoun.
Example Sentence Reflexive Pronoun
Some examples of sentences reflexive pronoun for  singular or  plural as :
Number
Pronoun
Example sentence Reflexive Pronoun
Singular
myself
I‘m going to buy myself new jeans.
(Saya akan membeli jeans baru untuk saya sendiri.)
yourself
It’s essential to treat others like you treat yourself.
(Penting untuk memperlakukan orang lain seperti kamu memperlakukan diri sendiri.)
herself
She asked herself why she was easy to be panic.
(Dia bertanya pada dirinya sendiri mengapa dulu dia mudah panik.)
himself
Hendri didn’t blame himself for the accident.
(Hendri tidak menyalahkan dirinya sendiri terhadap kecelakaan tersebut.)
itself
The cat is licking itself.
(Kucing itu sedang menjilayi dirinya.)
Plural
yourselves
Why don’t you watch yourselves on TV?
(Mengapa kamu tidak menonton dirimu di TV?)
ourselves
We should give time for ourselves to take a rest.
(Kita seharusnya memberi waktu untuk diri kita sendiri untuk beristirahat.)
themselves
The students ate cookies that they cooked by themselves.
(Siswa-siswa tersebut makan kue yang mereka masak sendiri.)

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