Types of Pronoun

There are many types of pronouns such as the following:

1. Personal Pronouns
2. possessive Pronouns
3. Reflexive Pronouns
4. Demonstrative pronouns
5. Relative Pronouns
6. Interrogative pronouns
7. Reciprocal pronouns
8. Universal Pronouns
9. Distributive Pronouns
10. Indefinite pronouns

Types of Pronouns in detail:

Personal Pronouns
There are three persons in English grammar. Personal pronouns are the pronouns that
speak about the three persons. They are:

First person- that is the person who is speaking. The pronouns used are I, WE.

Second Person- that is the person spoken to. The pronoun used is YOU.

Third person- they are persons other than the two. The pronouns used are HE, SHE, IT,
THEY.

Forms of Personal Pronouns

The various forms of all the personal pronouns in the nominative, accusative, and
possessive cases are described in the following table:

Case/ Person Nominative Accusative Possessive

I
Me My, Mine
First Person
Us Our, ours
We
Second Person You You Your, Yours

He Him His

She Her Her, Hers

Third Person
It It Its

They Them Their, Theirs

Reflexive Pronouns
When a pronoun consists of a reflection of the self, it is a reflexive pronoun. For example,

He hurt himself.

She herself turned up to the event.

Note: We can only use the reflexive pronoun as a reflection of the subject, but not instead
of the subject.

I wanted to join the party. (Myself should not be used instead of I).

Demonstrative Pronouns
These pronouns demonstrate and point out to the objects that are spoken in the sentence.
For example,

This, these, that, those, such, etc.

This is the pen you are searching for.

New York’s roads are better than those of any other city.

It is true that the USA is the richest country in the world.

Indefinite Pronouns
When the pronoun describes a general phenomenon and no one specific in a sentence, that
is an indefinite pronoun. For example,

One, all, some, no one, nobody, somebody, any, other, many, anyone, everyone, someone
etc.

One should be careful about one’s behavior in the class.

Distributive Pronouns
Distributive pronouns describe one thing at a time in a sentence. It is important to note that
the distributive pronoun is always singular. Each, either, neither are some examples of
distributive pronouns.

Neither of the two was present in the class. (Were should not be used)

Either this or that option fits the schedule. (The plural ‘fit’ should not be used)

Relative pronouns
A relative pronoun is a word that is related to the noun mentioned before in the sentence.
The relative pronoun also works as a conjunction in the sentence, thus acting as a link
between various sentences.

He works in that room which is also like his bedroom.

The man whose bike was stolen came to the police station today.

It is the best movie that I ever watched.

I have a friend whom I treat as my teacher.

Interrogative Pronouns
Interrogative pronouns are used for asking questions in the sentences. Examples of such
pronouns are what, who, which, when, where, why, etc.

These are the various types of pronoun. We provided more chapters and more exercises
and rules about pronouns and their usage which will improve your understanding of
pronouns.