Pronouns replace nouns, adjectives, numerals. Therefore, in offers perform the syntactic function peculiar to these parts of speech. The asked question helps to define, main or secondary parts of the sentence they are. For the correct definition of a syntactic role of pronouns it is necessary to pay attention to their category.
Instruction
1. Pronouns are connected with personalized parts of speech: point to the person, objects, signs and quantity, only do not call them. Existence of the general grammatical features allows to allocate certain groups of pronouns: nouns, adjectives or numerals. In the offer, as well as the words replaced by them, pronouns perform function of different members. Correctly asked question will specify, the main thing (subject, a predicate) or minor (addition, definition, a circumstance) a sentence part is the pronoun.
2. The pronouns nouns relating to different categories in offers can be a subject. Review examples: "We (personal) solved a difficult problem", "Who (interrogative) watched the movie?", "The teacher guessed who (relative) watched the movie", "Something (uncertain) happened", "Nobody (negative) found the right answer", "This (index) becomes a habit", "All (attributive) went home".
3. Seldom in a complex sentence pronominal and correlative designs meet (what – such what – such is). In similar cases these pronouns perform function of a predicate: "Like teacher, like pupil".
4. Pronouns of different categories (except for possesive) in the offer quite often are addition. For example: "To me guests came", "Look at yourself attentively", "You will not tell everything".
5. Possesive, attributive, interrogative and relative, uncertain, negative, index pronouns adjectives act as definition. Examples of offers with a pronoun definition: "I invite the friends to birthday", "Each sound was distinctly heard", "What today day of the week?", "From some birches early flew about leaves", "No obstacles are terrible to courageous climbers", "The sister did not read such book yet".
6. The circumstance answers semantic questions ("where?", "from where?", etc.), they when determining syntactic value of a pronoun are used less than indirect. Pronouns can be a circumstance. But usually they are considered from a position of polysemy and spoken about two syntactic characteristics at the same time: additions and circumstances ("to whom?", "where?" – to it; "from whom?", "from where?" – from you).
7. Pronouns numerals "how many, so much" represent a uniform sentence part together with a word with which are used. As a rule, the noun in a Nominative or oblique case happens this word. Such phrases will be a subject or addition.
8. Sometimes attributive pronouns make an integral combination to the defined noun. The similar design makes one sentence part: "All works were perfectly performed", "Summer vacation is pleasant to each school student".