English Pronouns

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Pronouns in English

Use this template to learn the pronouns in English. Pronouns are the parts of speech used instead of nouns to avoid repetition. Depending on the situations in which they are used, they have different forms.

The types of pronouns are:

• Personal pronouns
• Possessive pronouns
• Relative pronouns
• Reflexive pronouns
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Interrogative pronouns
• Indefinite pronouns

Personal pronouns in English

Personal pronouns are the pronouns that refer to specific people or things. They can change depending on the person, number, gender, or case.

Examples of personal pronouns, singular and plural form:

• I/Me
• You/You
• He/She/It Him/Her/It
• We/Us
• You/You
• They/Them

Possessive pronouns in English

Possessive pronouns show that something belongs to someone.

Examples of possessive pronouns:

• Mine
• Yours
• His/Hers/Its
• Ours
• Yours

Relative pronouns in English

Relative pronouns describe nouns in terms of how they relate to other words.

Examples of relative pronouns:

• Who
• Whom
• Whose
• Which
• That
• What

Reflexive pronouns in English

Reflexive pronouns are used when the subject of a sentence is also the object of the sentence.

Examples of reflexive pronouns:

• Myself
• Yourself
• Himself/Herself/Itself
• Ourselves
• Themselves

Demonstrative pronouns in English

Demonstrative pronouns point to and identify a noun or a pronoun. They are used in place of particular things to show which one we’re discussing.

Examples of demonstrative pronouns:

• Somebody/Someone
• Something/Anything
• Nobody/Nothing
• All
• Other/Another
• Both/Each
• Many/Most
• Some/Few
• None
• Such

Interrogative pronouns in English

Interrogative pronouns are the pronouns used in questions. In sentences, when the pronoun is a subject, the verb will precede the pronoun.

Examples of interrogative pronouns:

• Who
• Whom
• What
• Which
• Whose

’Who’ and ‘whom’ are used to refer to people and which is used for animals and things.

Indefinite pronouns in English

Indefinite pronouns refer to a thing or person that is identifiable, but not specified.

Examples of indefinite pronouns:

• This
• That
• These
• Those

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Pronouns

Pronouns - a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse.

Indefinite pronouns

An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun that refers to a person or a thing without being specific.

None/Some/Few

Many/Most/Such

Other/Another

Nobody/Nothing

Something/Anything

Somebody/Someone

Demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are pronouns that point to specific objects. They function as subjects or objects.

Those

These

This

Interrogative pronouns

An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question,

Reflexive pronouns

Reflexive pronouns are words ending in -self or -selves that are used when the subject and the object of a sentence are the same. They refer back to an earlier noun or pronoun.

Themselves

Ourselves

Himself/Herself/Itself

Yourself

Myself

Relative pronouns

A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause. They link one part of a sentence to another.

What

That

Which

Whose

Whom

Who

Possesive pronouns

Possessive pronouns show that something belongs to someone. Replaces noun in phrases.

Ours

His/Hers/Its

Yours

Mine

Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – They represents people places or things.

They/Them

We/Us

He/She/It Him/Her/It

You/You

I/Me

Example

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