Pronoun
Pronoun definition
Pronoun are words used in place of nouns.
Kinds of pronoun
There are different kinds of pronoun.
- Personal pronoun
- Possessive pronoun
- Reflexive pronoun
- Emphatic pronoun
- Interrogative pronoun
- Demonstrative pronoun
- Indefinite pronoun
- Relative pronoun
Personal pronoun
Personal pronoun can be used for the first person, second person or third person.First person : the person speaking - I, me, we, us .
Second person : the person spoken to - you.
Third person : the person or thing being spoken of - he, him, she, her, it, they, them.
Pronouns can be used as subject pronouns or object pronouns. In other words, they may function as the subject of the verb in a sentence, or the object of the verb.
Possessive pronoun
Pronouns can also show possession. Such Pronouns are called Possessive pronoun.
Example: Are you sure we can use this computer? It is not ours.
Reflexive pronouns
Reflexive pronouns such as myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves and themselves are used when the action done by the subject is received by the subject itself as object.
Example: Kritika bought a dress for herself
Emphatic pronoun
The words used as Reflexive pronoun are also used to emphasize the fast that the action is performed by the subject itself (and not by anybody or anything else). These are called Emphatic pronoun
Example: Mahi himself told me about the incident.
Interrogative pronoun
When wh-words are used to make questions and are used in place of nouns as subjects, they function as pronouns. Such Pronouns are called Interrogative pronoun.
Example: Who is at the window?
Demonstrative pronouns
We use Demonstrative pronouns such as this, that, these and those to point to people or objects.
Example: That is Praveen house.
Indefinite Pronouns
Words such as some, anyone, someone, somebody, something, everyone, no one, few, none and each can also be used in place of nouns. These are called Indefinite pronoun.
Example: I went to the park, but there was no one there.
Relative pronoun
A relative pronoun refers to a noun that comes just before it. Who, whom, whose, which and that are relative pronouns.
Pronoun Singular and plural chart
| PLURAL | Subject | Object | Possessive | Emphatic/reflexive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | We | Us | Ours | Ourselves |
| 2nd person | You | You | Yours | Yourselves |
| 3rd person | They | Them | Theirs | Themselves |
| Singular | Subject | Object | Possessive | Reflexive/emphatic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | I | Me | Mine | Myself |
| 2nd person | You | You | Yours | Yourself |
| 3rd person | He | Him | His | Himself |
| She | Her | Hers | Herself | |
| It | It | Itself |