What you will learn in Grade 5
Today's goal: Use personal, possessive, reflexive, demonstrative and relative pronouns while avoiding unclear references.
Personal: she, them
Personal pronouns refer to people, animals or things without repeating their names.
Possessive: theirs
Possessive pronouns show ownership and can stand alone instead of repeating the noun.
Reflexive: herself, themselves
Reflexive pronouns refer back to the subject and usually end in -self or -selves.
Demonstrative: these, those
Demonstrative pronouns point to particular people or things and show whether they are near or farther away.
Core idea
Read the explanation, study the examples and explain the idea in your own words.
Learn with examples
They helped us.
“They helped us.” stands in for a person or group.
The books are theirs.
“The books are theirs.” shows who owns or has something.
She taught herself.
“She taught herself.” refers back to the subject of the sentence.
The girl who won smiled.
“The girl who won smiled.” connects extra information to a noun.
See the skill in action
Quick check
Which relative pronoun fits a person: who or which?
Practice like a learner
- Choose: The players congratulated themselves/theirs.
- Choose: This/These are my shoes.
- Join two sentences using 'who'.
- Rewrite an unclear pronoun reference.
- Write a sentence using 'theirs'.
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