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Taking The TOEIC Skills and Strategies 1 (Chapter 2: Grammar Practice)



1. Personal Pronouns
There are five types: subjective, objective, two possessive forms, reflexive.

- You should look for a new job. (subjective) - The CEO wanted me to talk to her. (objective) - Our new laptop is not as expensive as theirs. (possessive: This type is NOT followed by a noun.) - The managers explained their new strategies at the last meeting. (possessive: This type is followed by a noun) - Marsha was proud of herself for getting the promotion. (reflexive)


2. Demonstrative Pronouns
The demonstrative pronouns: this/these, that/those

- This is my laptop, and that is yours. - These are the contracts that need to be signed, not those.


3. Interrogative Pronouns
Who(ever), whom(ever), which(ever), and what(ever) introduce a noun clause.
- Whatever you would like to do is fine with me.


4. Indefinite Pronouns
A. Use one and the other when there are two things or people.
B. Use one, another, and the other when there are three things or people.
C. Use one, another, and the others when there are more than three things or people.

- The company only has two choices: one is to give up, and the other is to keep fighting. - One deadline is this Monday, another is two weeks after that, and the other is the final Friday of the month. - Of the five managers at the meeting, one was my supervisor, and another was Jake McGrath from personnel, but the others I did not know.


5. Negative Pronoun
None is used for the idea of there being nothing.
- The company expected a lot of criticism for their decision, but there was none.



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