PRONOUN

Pronouns are words that take the place of noun.

A pronoun and its antecedent should agree in person, number and gender they replace to
modify.

Types of Pronoun

 Personal –

PERSON SINGULAR PLURAL

1ST I WE
2ND YOU YOU
3RD HE, SHE, IT THEY

 Demonstrative – refers to person, things, place or ideas

This – refers to object near the speaker

These – refers to objects near the speaker
That – refers to object far from the speaker
Those – refers to objects far from the speaker

 Interrogative – are used to ask questions

 Indefinite – are pronouns that point no particular person, place or thing.
e.g. Someone, somebody, something, anything, anyone, anybody, everybody, everyone,
everything, nobody, no one, nothing, many several, few, some…

 Reflexive – refers to the doer of the action and it is formed by adding self or selves to
certain forms of personal pronouns. It is written after the verb.

e.g. She baked herself a cake

 Intensive – same with reflexive only that it is written after the noun.

e.g. She herself baked the cake.

 Relative – A relative pronoun starts a clause (a group of words that refer to a

noun). Who, that, and which are all relative pronouns. They can also serve as other
types of pronouns, depending on the sentence. For example, in “I saw the dog that you
own,” the relative pronoun that is the beginning of the clause that you own, which
describes the dog.
 Reciprocal pronouns are similar to reflexive pronouns, but they involve groups of two or
more that perform the same action with one another. There are only two reciprocal
pronouns: each other (for groups of two) and one another (for larger groups).
 Possessive are the pronouns that help us show possession or ownership in a sentence.