<span>Demonstrative: Hand me [those] papers. (Me is also an objective pronoun) Reflexive: They call [themselves] The Ambassadors. (They is also a nominative pronoun) Indefinite: Has [anyone] seen Tim? Interrogative: [What] did you say? (You is also a nominative pronoun) Relative: The cat that followed me home is a black angora. (Me is an objective pronoun) Nominative: [We] won the game. Objective: The first team beat [us]. Possessive: Tom, [whose] turn it is, will speak. (It is also a nominative pronoun)
Possessive pronouns are: my, mine, his, her, hers, their, theirs, our, ours, your, yours. Whose owns the turn and refers to Tom.Objective pronouns are the object of the sentence. They receive the action. In the sentences above, us receives the action of being beaten.Demonstrative pronouns refer to a very specific thing. In the example, the speaker is asking for a specific set of papers. The example is also using the demonstrative pronoun as an adjective to describe which papers.Indefinite pronouns refer to a wide array of nouns. They do not talk about a specific person or thing.Nominative pronouns are the subject of the sentence. They do the action.Interrogative pronouns are pronouns that help ask questions. Think interrogation. During an interrogation many interrogative pronouns are used.Reflexive pronouns refer back to a noun or pronoun. A few examples are: themselves, itself, myself, himself, herself, ourselves.Relative pronouns introduce a relative clause. In a sentence the relative clause modifies a word in the main clause. In this example, the cat is modified by the clause “that followed me home” to tell which cat the speaker is referring to. <span> </span></span>
Exigence an event or circumstance that engenders rhetoric; the requirement is the one that starts the "loop" of the debate on rhetoric about a specific subject. Purpose: the desired results of (implicitly or explicitly) rhetorical speech defined by the rhetoric.
