Thursday 15 February 2018

Types of Pronouns

There are 7 types of pronouns, all of which have different uses. They are different from 'determiners' which change nouns, not replace them, as pronouns do. 

1) Personal pronouns: These take the place of people, places or things. They vary with the noun being replaced, depending on whether it is a 'subject' or an 'object'.
                                        Subject                    Object
                                             I                             Me
                                            You                         You
                                            He                           Him
                                            She                          Her
                                            It                              It
                                            We                           Us
                                            You                          You
                                            They                        Them
eg: They gave him a gift.

2) Possessive Pronouns:  These pronouns show ownership and replace possessive noun phrases. Some examples are 'mine', 'yours', 'his', 'hers', 'its', 'ours', 'yours', 'theirs'.
eg: The bicycle is his.

3) Relative Pronouns: These link one part of a sentence to another by introducing a relative clause that describes and earlier mentioned noun/pronoun. Some examples are 'who', 'whom', 'whose', 'which', 'that', 'what'.
eg: Tom is the person who taught me to play chess.

4) Reflexive Pronouns: These pronouns are used to show that the action done by the subject reflects back on the subject, with the pronoun playing the role of the object. They are 'myself', 'yourself','himself','herself', 'ourselves', 'themselves'.
eg: He saw the experiment for himself.

5) Demonstrative Pronouns: The pronouns behave as subjects in a sentence, replacing nouns. They are 'this', 'that', 'these', 'those'.

eg: That is my car.

6) Interrogative Pronouns: These are used to ask questions and represent an unknown subject/object. They are 'who', 'whom', 'what', 'which', 'whose'.

eg: Who is speaking?

7) Indefinite Pronouns: These do not refer to any specific person or thing, yet take the place of nouns in a sentence. They are 'somebody', 'someone', 'something', 'anybody', 'anyone', 'anything', 'nobody', 'no one', 'nothing', 'all', 'another', 'both', 'each', 'many', 'most', 'other', 'other', 'some', 'few', 'none', 'such'.
eg: Has anybody come yet?
       

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