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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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