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She is the first girl in that queue.

She is the girl with green suit. (Identity)

G Pronouns that refer to one person or thing at a time or all the persons or things
many times but individually, not collectively, are called distributive pronouns . Each ,
either and neither are some examples of distributive pronouns.

Read the following examples:
1. Each of you gets an award.

2. Each of the boys received the citation.
Either means the one or the other out of the two.

Either of these roads leads to the stadium.

Neither means not the one nor the other of the two.
Neither of them know French language.

G Reciprocal Pronouns refer to an action going in one direction and also back in the
opposite direction. Each other and one another are examples of reciprocal pronouns.

‘Each other’ is used to refer two people and ‘one another’ to more than two.
Read the following examples:

1. The friends visited one another’s house on weekends.
2. They held each other’s hand.

G The pronouns which join two sentences and stand for nouns which have been used
in the sentence before are called relative pronouns Who whose whom which ,
.
,
,
,
that are examples of relative pronouns.
Read the following examples:
1. Here is the man whose car was stolen last night.

2. I saw a man who was wearing a big hat.

A. Complete the following sentences with the correct possessive pronoun.

1. Look at that red bag. It is _____________.
2. Fatima, is this pen _____________?

3. This car is not _____________. It is _____________.
4. I took Sheela’s book. I did not know it was _____________.

5. This is Ravi’s mother. _____________ mother teaches us Sanskrit.

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