PRONOUN

• Pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun

• Ranita is a beautiful girl
• Ranita loves Rahul
• She is a beautiful girl
• She lives with her father
Personal pronoun
1st person 2nd person 3rd person
Speaker To whom we speak Of whom we speak
I, we You He, she, it, they

I love you
He loves you
Personal PRONOUN
Subjective I We You He/she/it They
case
Objective Me Us You Him/her/it them
case

I /me helped he/him

They/them hit I /me
Use of subjective case

• Be + subjective case /objective case

• Be=is/am/are/was/were/be/been/being
• It was me/I who had brought you home
• It was them/ they who were running very fast
• It was him/ he who helped me to do the work
• If I were he/him, I would help her with money
• If they were i/me, they would not oppose their boss
• It is me/I who is responsible for the mistake
Use of objective case
• Verb+ objective case / subjective case
• She told I/ me a story
• She scolded you and I/ me
Let +objective case
• Let me/I love you
• Let him/he do the work
• I supposed Ram to be Shyam
• I supposed Ram to be he/him
Prepostion +objective case/ subjective case
• She divided the money between you and i/ me
• She mocked at he/him and i/me
Use objective case after these words
• Between, with, besides, including, excluding, but, like,
unlike, together with, along with, as well as, and not, in
addition to, rather than, accompanied by, no less than,
nothing but etc
• You should not depend on he/him.
Some errors
• All the players except he attended the party
• All his friedns like he are stupid
• Between you and I, I am intelligent
 But
She is well off but she/ her is greedy but
Everyone went to the party but she/ her
I am poor but i/me am honest
Nobody knew the answer but me/ I
Prepostion
conjunction ( except)
 Classification of pronoun
The case of personal Subjective
Objective case Possessive case Possessive pronoun
pronoun case

Singular I Me My Mine
First person
plural We Us Our ours

Singular/
Second person You You Your yours
plural

singular He, she, it Him/her His/her/its His /hers

Third person
plural They Them Their theirs
Poss adj and poss pronoun

Poss adj Poss pronoun

• My, our, your, his, her, its, their • Mine, ours, yours, his, hers,
theirs
• A noun is always used after
them • A noun is not used after them

• My car • Poss pro= poss adj+ noun

• His gf • Mine=my+noun
• Her husband • Ours=our+noun
Some errors
• I always appreciate hers work but she never appreciate my
• Ours house is small but your is very big
• A elephant uses it’s trunk for many tasks
• Its very difficult question so I can not solve it
• Your car is here but mine car is there
• This is my house and where is yours house
• Ours is a great country
• Mine is a new car
• his is a beautiful flat
• I don’t like you sleeping during my class
• She doesn’t mind us commenting during the class
As / than
• She is as tall as i/me
• She better than me/I
• Though she appears taller but she is just an inch taller than me/I
• No other typist in this office is as slow as her/she
• You are more beautiful than her/she
• She likes you as much as i/ me
• I respect you more than he/him
• I know better than he/him
• I know you better than he /him
• I know you better than he/him
• I like chocolates more than he/ him
As and than
• Rohan is richer than me that is why Shalini selected him
• Mohan is as tall as me
• Mohan is not wise like her
• Kunal knows me more than he/him
• Mohan trusts her more than I / me that is why he gave that bag to her
not me
• She drives the car faster than I /me
Orders of pronoun
• General order ( 2nd+3rd+1st )
• While confessing mistake ( 1st +2nd +3rd )
• I, you, and he shall complete the work on time
• You,I and he are going to the party
• You, he, and I are responsible for the mistake
• He and you have stolen some money
• You,he and I will ask for pardon
• She and you are at fault
• He, you and I are eligible for this post
• You and I are responsible for all these problems
In case of plural pronous ( 1st+ 2nd+3rd)
• We, you, and they will attend the meeting
• We, you and they will go to the picnic
• We and you will arrange the payment
• You and they are supposed to write the script
• We and they should work hard
Some more
• You, he and I will complete your/him/my/our work
• You and I will complete your/ my /our work 1st person I / we
• Ram and I will complete your/my /our work 2nd person You
3rd person He,she,it,they
• You and he will complete your/his work
• You as well as I is / are ready to do the work
• Ram and I is/are/am intimate friends
• Ram or I is/am/ are intimate friends
Don’t use possessive cases with these words
• Leave, separation, excuse, pardon, sight, favour, mention

• Leave ( from)- official permission

• Leave (of)---- bye
• I will take leave of you
• I will leave from the job
• Ram can’t bear her separation ( ram can’t bear separation from her)
• I beg your pardon from you for mistakes( I beg pardon of you/ from
you)
• You and I am/are busy
• You as well as I am/ are busy
• You or I am/ are busy
• Neither you nor I are / am busy
Reflexive and emphatic case
Subjective case Objective case Emphatic case/ reflexive case

I Me Myself

We Us Ourselves

You You Yourself/ yourselves

He Him Himself

She Her Herself

It It itself

They Them themselves

reflexive
• If the doer and the receiver of an action is the same person or thing,
use the receiver in reflexive case
• He adapted him to the harsh climate of Manali
• I can’t put me in danger for you
• I introduced myself to the chairman
• I introduced himself to the chairman
• He introduced herself to the chairman
• The man poisoned himself and his children
uses
• A reflexive pronoun can never become subject of the sentence.

• Ram and myself were present at the function

There are certain verbs that takes object
• Avail/availed ( reflexive pronoun and of)
• I availed the opportunity
• I availed myself the opportunity
• I availed myself of the opportunity
There are certain verbs that takes object
• Enjoy, amuse, acquit, avail, absent, present, introduce, adapt, pride,
reconcile, avenge, resign, prostrate, hurt, disguise,exert,satisfy,adjust
• I enjoyed the party last night
• I enjoyed in the party last night
• He introduced the topic to the bdo
• He introduced to the bdo
• The minister acquitted very easily from court
• They availed of the discount
• She absented from the college
• She absent from college
• She prides on the her beauty
• The students exert themselves