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-word used in place of one or more nouns
Personal Pronouns can be written in person.
1st person- speaker or writer
2nd person- person or people being spoken to
3rd person- person or people being spoken about
Personal Pronouns-Subjective Case
Singular Plural
1st I We
2nd You You
3rd He, She, It They
Personal Pronouns-Objective Case
Singular Plural
1st Me Us
2nd You You
3rd Him, Her, It Them
Personal Pronouns-Possessive Case
Singular Plural
1st My, Mine Our, Ours
2nd Your, Yours Your, Yours
3rd His, Her, Hers Their, Theirs
It, Its
Demonstrative Pronouns
This That These Those Such
(singular) (plural)
Can be used as pronouns or determiners
Pronouns-identify or point to nouns
I will never forget this.
That is wonderful!
Determiners-modifies a noun
These pancakes are delicious.
This book is well written.
Indefinite Pronouns
Most common indefinite pronouns:
any some every many anyone
someone everyone few anybody somebody
everything several anything something everybody none
These indefinite pronouns can also be used as determiners:
enough, few, fewer, less, little, many, much, several, more, most, all, both, every, each, any, either, neither, none, some
Reciprocal Pronouns
Each other One another
Each other-use to compare 2 people
One another-use to compare more than 2 people
Relative Pronouns
Who Whom
Which That
Relative pronouns are pronouns that relate groups of words to nouns or other pronouns. Usually these groups of words are subordinate clauses or parts of subordinate clauses.
Thus a pronoun joins a subordinate clause to a main clause. Common relative pronouns are 'who', 'whom', 'which, 'that' and 'where'.
As a general rule, you should use:
'who' and 'whom' when the reference is to a human being or person.
'which' and 'that' when the reference is not to a human being or a person.
Intensive Pronouns
-come right after the word to make it more intense
-take a personal pronoun and add "self" or "selves" to it:
himself, herself, myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, itself, oneself, themselves
Ex.
Jimmy himself talked her into it.
Reflexive Pronouns
-reflect back on the noun-the pronoun is put after the verb
-take a personal pronoun and add "self" or "selves" to it:
himself, herself, myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, itself, oneself, themselves
Ex.
Mary hurt herself. Billy did it himself.
Interrogative Pronouns
-take the place of a noun and ask a question
Who? What? Which?
Whom? Whose? Where?
Whoever? Whomever? Whatever?
Whichever?
-introduce questions
