PRONOUNS (NEGATIVE PRONOUNS, PART 1)

Welcome back, everyone!

Pronouns is our theme for the week. Today's and tomorrow's lesson is about NEGATIVE PRONOUNS. We've broken it up into two lessons.

NEGATIVE PRONOUNS indicate the non-existence of people or things. We use NEGATIVE PRONOUNS to indicate when something did not occur or was not present.

To understand NEGATIVE PRONOUNS, you must consider two concepts: animate and inanimate. Animate means "living" things that move (such as animals or people). Inanimate means "non-living" things or things that can't move (such as plants and objects). 

The NEGATIVE PRONOUNS in English are:
-No 
-None
-Neither
-Nobody
-No one
-Nothing 

Today we will look at the first three NEGATIVE PRONOUNS, and tomorrow we'll look at three more.

We use NO with nouns. You often see this use on signs. 

Example 1: No drinks are allowed in the library. 

Example 2: No smoking allowed. 

We use NONE with animate and inanimate objects. 

Example 3: None of us saw the bear.

Example 4: None of our teas are decaffeinated. I’m sorry. 

We use NEITHER to express that both of two things (animate or inanimate) share the same negative state. 

Example 5: Neither of us has a driver's license. 

Example 6: Neither of the dogs is up for adoption. 

Tomorrow we will look at examples with Nobody, No one and Nothing.

Until then, have a great day!