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2. Why did Anitha start hating herself?

3. ‘Learning Science and Maths is not education. Education should make a person a good
human being.’ Do you agree with these words? What do you think makes a good human
being? Explain in the context of the story. life skill critical thinking

Time to study language

You have learnt that a pronoun is a word used in place of a noun.

Let us revise the different kinds of pronouns.

Personal Possessive Interrogative

They refer to the person They show possession, They are used to ask
speaking, the person being ownership or relationship. questions.
spoken to, or the person or

thing being spoken about.

Examples: I, me, we, us, he, Examples: his, hers, its, mine, Examples: who, what, which,
she, it, you, them, they ours, yours, theirs whom, whose

Demonstrative Reflexive Emphatic

They are used to point at They are used to show that They are used to place
things in space or time, and the subject of the sentence is emphasis on the subject.

they can be either singular receiving the action of
or plural. the verb.

Examples: this, that, these, Examples: himself, herself, Examples: himself, herself,
those itself, myself, yourself, itself, myself, yourself,
ourselves and themselves ourselves and themselves

Reciprocal Indefinite Relative
They are used to refer to a They are used refer to an They help to introduce

mutual set of people. unspecified person, place, subordinate clauses and are
thing or idea. used to refer to nouns in the
independent clause.

Examples: each other, one Examples: all, anyone, both, Examples: himself, herself,
another each, anything, everybody, itself, myself, yourself,
everyone, many, no one, ourselves and themselves

some, someone

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