PRONOUNS

PRONOUNS
A

Pronoun is a word that replaces a noun. The word or phrase replaced by a pronoun is called an Antecedent.

TYPES OF PRONOUNS
Personal Intensive

Possessive
Indefinite Relative Interrogative Demonstrative

Reciprocal
Distributive

PERSONAL PRONOUNS
Personal pronouns refer to specific persons, places, or things.

SUBJECT PRONOUN
A pronoun used at the start of a sentence/subject.

EXAMPLES
I

lost the ball and could not find it. We are students of IPE. Person First I Singular we Plural

Second Third

you he / she / it

you they

OBJECT PRONOUNS
An Object Pronoun takes place off a direct/ indirect object .

EXAMPLES

The secretary notified us today. My aunt wrote me a letter. Person Singular Plural

First Second
Third

me you
him / her / it

us you
them

POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
A possessive pronoun shows the ownership or possession of something.

POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

My friend found his dog. Those are your books. Person Singular Plural

First
Second Third

my, mine
your his/ her /its

our, ours
yours their, theirs

INDEFINITE PRONOUNS
An Indefinite Pronoun is a noun substitute which is not specific to a person or thing .

PRONOUNS OF

QUANTITY

Pronouns which relate to the quanity. more,much,little refer to quanity.

PRONOUNS OF NUMBERS
Pronouns which show the numeric value. Many, few

EXAMPLES
I

need more apples.

There

were many students in the lab.

EXAMPLES
Anything

you can do ,I can do better. Everyone discusses the plot. Some are born great.

singular plural Another, Both, few, much, many, everybody, others, several nothing, anyone

RELATIVE PRONOUN
A

Relative Pronoun connects an adjective or a noun clause to the rest of the sentence.

EXAMPLE
The

moment which is lost is lost forever. The criminal got what he deserved. He was the most eloquent speaker that I ever heard.

RELATIVE PRONOUNS
Singular Used to relate adjectives Used to relate nouns Who, whose, whom Its, mine, yours, his, her,that Plural Our, your, their Ours, yours, theirs

INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS
An

Interrogative Pronoun introduces a question.

EXAMPLES
Whose

books are those? Which is the house?

who,whom, why,what,when, which, whose, whomever, whatever, whichever are some of Interrogative Pronouns.

DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS
Demonstrative

Pronouns point to the object they refer.

EXAMPLE
This

book is mine.

Our

soldiers are better drilled than those of the enemies.

that(singular), these, those(plural) are some of the Demonstrative Pronouns.

This,

INTENSIVE PRONOUNS
An intensive pronoun is a pronoun that adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun already named. It ends with word self.

 George

himself bought a copy of American Tall Tales.

EXAMPLE

He

himself paid for the book. Plural Ourselves, yourselves, themselves

Singular Myself, yourself

himself, herself, itself

RECIPROCAL PRONOUNS
A

Reciprocal Pronoun is used to relate two different people, things.

EXAMPLES
John

and Janaki love each other.

The

students helped one another study before the test. Each other, One another are the Reciprocal Pronouns.

DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUNS
Distributive

Pronouns are singular and refer to person or things one at a time.

EXAMPLES
Each

of the men received a reward. Neither of the accusations is true. Each ,Either, Neither are the Distributive Pronouns.