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Personal Pronoun
Personal Pronoun
Personal Pronoun
A personal pronoun is a pronoun typically used to refer to a speaker or to the people or things
that a speaker is referring to. Often, personal pronouns are used to replace proper names as in
Olivia went to bed early because she (Olivia) worked hard today.
Like all other pronouns, personal pronouns only replace nouns and not other parts of speech, like
verbs or adjectives. Grammatically, they act exactly the same as nouns and can act as a subject or
object of a clause, phrase, or sentence.
While we typically use personal pronouns to refer to people, we can also use them to refer to
animals, too. For example,
I bought my cat a new toy, and he loves it.
Some personal pronouns are also used to refer to inanimate objects or concepts:
Our house looked very nice after we painted it.
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