PRONOUN

PRONOUN

Pronoun takes the place of, or refer to, a specific noun in a sentence.

Categories and Cases

1. Personal Pronouns

Personal Pronouns can refer to the speaker/speakers (first person) or those being spoken to (second person), or those who are spoken about (third person).

 
Subjective Case Personal Pronouns
 
  First Person Second Person Third Person
Singular I you he,she,it
Plural we you they

Objective case pronouns are used as objects in a sentence.

 
Objective Case Personal Pronouns
 
  First Person Second Person Third Person
Singular me you him, her, it
Plural us you them

Personal pronouns can also show possession - to whom something belongs.

 
Possessive Case Personal Pronouns
 
  First Person Second Person Third Person
Singular my, mine your, yours his, her, hers, its
Plural our, ours your, yours their, theirs

 

2. Reflexive Pronouns

Reflexive pronouns are used to show a subject performing some kind of action upon itself. Reflexive pronouns can act only as objects in a sentence never as subjects.

 
Reflexive Case Personal Pronouns
 
  First Person Second Person Third Person
Singular myself yourself himself, herself, itself
Plural ourselves yourselves themselves

3. Demonstrative Pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns refer to things in relation to number and distance.

 
Demonstrative Case Personal Pronouns
  Near Far
Singular This That
Plural These Those

4. Indefinite Pronouns

Indefinite Pronouns can refer to unspecified people, places or things.

Singular Plural Both ( Singluar/Plural)
another anyone no one both all
anybody anything nobody few most
everyone everybody one many none
each either somebody    
something        

 

5. Distributive Pronouns

Distributive Pronoun refers to the members of the representative group and are called distributive forms.

Each, everyone, either and neither are the distributive forms.

6. Interrogative Pronouns

Interrogative Pronouns are pronouns that begin questions : who, whom, whose, which and what.

7. Relative Pronouns

Relative Pronoun are that, which, who and whom - which relate to another noun that precedes it in the sentence.

 

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