Pronoun and Its Types

Pronoun
• A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a
noun or another pronoun.
• 1.Aasia went for a walk.
2. She went for a walk.

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 9 Types of Pronoun
• 1. Personal Pronoun
• 2. Indefinite Pronoun
• 3. Demonstrative Pronoun
• 4. Interrogative Pronoun
• 5. Relative Pronoun
• 6. Distributive Pronoun
• 7. Reciprocal Pronoun
• 8. Reflexive Pronoun
• 9. Emphatic Pronoun
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 1.Personal Pronouns

They refer to specific persons or things.

Maryam ate pizza.

She was hungry.

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 Chart of Personal Pronoun
Narration Persons Subjective Objective Possessive Strong Possessive

1st person 1st Person I me my mine

changes into (speaker)
subject

we us our ours
2nd Person 2nd Person you you your yours
changes into (listener)
object.

No Change 3rd Person he him his his

(about
whom we
discuss)

3rd Person she her her hers

3rd Person it it its its
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3rd Person they them their theirs
 2.Indefinite Pronouns

They do not refer to a specific person or thing.

Someone, somebody, anyone, anybody, and, everyone,
everybody are indefinite pronouns.
Someone stole my wallet!
The word "someone" is the indefinite pronoun.
• Several have conflict with their rivals.

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 Some Indefinite Pronouns
Singular Plural
another everybody no one both
anybody everyone nothing few
anyone everything one many
anything much somebody others
someone several
nobody something

All, any, most, none and some can be

singular or plural, depending on the phrase
that follows them.
 Some Indefinite Pronouns
When an indefinite pronoun is used as the
subject, the verb must agree with it in number.
Everyone discusses the plot. (singular)
Both talk about PM Imran Khan. (plural)
All of mythology is about beliefs and ideals. (singular)
All of the myths are about beliefs and ideals. (plural)

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3. Demonstrative Pronoun

A demonstrative pronoun is used to point out one or more

nouns referred to in the sentence.
This, that, these, and those are demonstrative pronouns.
These are lemons.

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• Interrogative pronouns are used to ask questions. The
words who, whose, what, which and whom are
interrogative pronouns.
• Examples:-
• Who used all my paper?
• Who are those people?
• Whose pen is this?
• Whose are these shoes?
• What is your brother’s name?
• What does Ehsan want?
• What is the date today?

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 5. Relative Pronoun
• It relates ( carries us back) to some noun
going before.
• Antecedent: The noun before Relative
Pronoun is called Antecedent.
• I taught a boy who won trophy in board.
• I have a cell phone which is very
expensive.
• Here is the book that you lent me.
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 6. Distributive Pronouns
• Each, either, neither are called Distributive
Pronouns because they refer to persons or
things one at a time.
• They are always singular and the following
verb is also singular.
• Each of the boys gets a prize.
• Neither of the accusations is true.

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• It expresses a relationship between the
individuals indicated in the plural subject

Examples :-
Two boys fought with each other.
The boys fought with one another.
The members of the family love one
another.

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Singular personal pronoun How to make Reflexive/ Emphatic pronoun

I (subject pronoun) Myself

You (subject/object pronoun) Yourself

He (subject pronoun) Himself

She(subject pronoun) Herself

It itself
Plural personal pronoun Reflexive pronoun
We (subject pronoun) Ourselves

You(subject / object pronoun) Yourselves

They (subject pronoun) themselves

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 8. Reflexive Pronouns
A reflexive pronoun refers to a noun or
another pronoun and indicates that the
same person or thing is involved.
They are personal pronouns that have "-self"
or "-selves" added to the end.
The woman found herself a book of folktales.
Azeem finished the homework himself.

The reflexive pronoun is "himself."

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 9.Emphatic/Intensive Pronouns
An intensive/ emphatic pronoun is a pronoun
that adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun already
named.

Ehtesham himself bought a copy of ‘The

Republic’.
He himself paid his university fee.
Difference between Emphatic and Reflexive Pronoun

• A pronoun is a reflexive one if the action

of the subject reflects upon the doer.
Emphatic pronouns are used to
emphasize the action of the subject.
• He cut the cake himself. (Reflexive: here
the subject and object refer to the same
person.)
He himself cut the cake. (Emphatic: here
the emphatic pronoun himself merely puts
emphasis on the noun he.)
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 Cont..
. I myself spoke to the principal. (Emphatic)
.You must blame yourself for the loss.
(Reflexive)
Note that an emphatic pronoun can be
removed from the sentence and the core
meaning would not be affected. A reflexive
pronoun, on the other hand, is
indispensable. The sentence wouldn’t
make complete sense if you remove the
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 Fill in the blanks
1.Rabea went to the game. ____ brought her little brother
with her.
2.Ayesha left ____ baseball glove at home.
3._____ left a book on the playground.
4. _____ pair of shoes belongs to Awais?
5. That blanket is ____.

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 Solution
1.Rabea went to the game. _She___ brought her little
brother with her.
2.Ayesha left _her_baseball glove at home.
3._Someone left a book on the playground.
4. Which_ pair of shoes belongs to Awais?
5. That blanket is ours.

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