Pronouns atau kata ganti dalam bahasa Inggris

Quality Online Education – Pronouns adalah kata ganti bagi sebuah kata benda. Perhatikan kalimat berikut,

Jean is a clever student and study at English department of Lampung University. Jean has many friends but the closest friends are Janet and Jason. Janet and Jason are studying in the same class with Jean every day.

Jika beberapa gabungan kalimat di atas menggunakan pronoun maka hasilnya adalah sebagai berikut, 

Jean is a clever student and study at English department of Lampung University. She has many friends but the closest friends are Janet and Jason. They are studying in the same class with her in every moment.

Paragraf kedua menggunakan pronouns untuk menggantikan kata benda (Jean, Janet, dan Jason). Pronoun yang menggantikan orang atau manusia dinamakan personal pronoun, ada beberapa contoh personal pronoun yang bisa teman-teman lihat di bawah ini,

1. I go to school.
2. We are Indonesians.
3. She drinks here.
4. You are so clever.
5. They are students.

Sementara itu, pronoun juga ada yang menggantikan sebuah objek yaitu “it”, berikut beberapa contoh pronoun tersebut,

1. It is big.
2. I taste it.
3. They cut and bring it to the river.

Tabel di bawah adalah kata ganti atau Pronouns yang bisa teman-teman terapkan, saya akan memberikan contoh pada orang pertama atau “I”, berikut contohnya.

1. I spend my night in my grandma’s house.
2. Dani tell me a story.
3. I believe myself.
4. We believe in God.
5. The teacher speaks to us.
6. We make ourselves brave.

Kata ganti pronoun untuk setiap bentuk,

		Subject Tunggal	Objek Tunggal	Refleksif Tunggal	Subjek Jamak	Objek Jamak	Refleksif Jamak
Pertama		I	me	myself	we	us	ourselves
Kedua		you	you	yourself	you	you	yourselves
Ketiga	Pria	he	him	himself	they	them	themselves
Ketiga	Wanita	she	her	herself	they	them	themselves
Ketiga	Netral	it	it	itself	they	them	themselve