Types of Pronouns:
- Personal Pronouns: The personal pronoun takes the place of a specific or named person or thing. Personal pronouns come in three different cases: Subject Pronouns, Object Pronouns, and Possessive Pronouns.
Subject Pronouns: I you, she, he, they, we, it, who
Object Pronouns: me, you, him, her, them, us, it, whom
Possessive Pronouns: mine, yours, his, hers, theirs, ours, its, whose
| ||Subjective|| ||Objective|| ||Possessive || |
| ||Singular||Plural ||Singular||Plural ||Singular||Plural |
|First Person ||I||we ||me||us ||my, mine||our, ours |
|Second Person ||you||you ||you||you ||your, yours||your, yours |
|Third Person ||he, she, it||it, they||him, her,it||it, them ||his, her||its, their |
- Demonstrative Pronoun: The demonstrative pronoun points out a specific person, place, or thing. Examples: this, that, these, those
- Reflexive Pronoun: The reflexive pronoun adds information by pointing back to a noun or another pronoun. Examples: myself, yourself.
- Intensive Pronouns: The intensive pronoun adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun. Examples: myself, yourself, herself, ourselves, themselves
- Indefinite Pronouns: Indefinite pronouns refer to persons, places, or things without specifying for certain which one. Examples: everybody, anybody, somebody, all, each, every, some, none, one
- Interrogative Pronoun: An interrogative pronoun is used to ask a question. The personal interrogative pronouns come in the same three cases as the personal pronouns. Examples: who, what, where, which
- Relative Pronouns: A relative pronoun begins a subordinate clause and relates the clause to a word in the main clause. Examples: who, whom, which and that
- Reciprocal Pronoun: A reciprocal pronoun is a pronoun that involves an exchange. Examples: each other, one another
- Negative Pronoun: A negative pronoun refers to a negative noun phrase. Examples: no-one, nobody, neither, none and nothing
Directions: Answer the following questions. Also, write two example sentences for each of type of pronoun described above. As a homework, read a book and find at least ten pronouns and identify their types.