Pronoun

Apronounis a word used

to stand for (or take the
place of) anoun.

Six types of pronoun

1. Personal Pronoun
2. Possessive Pronoun
3. Reflexive Pronoun
4. Relative Pronoun
5. Reciprocal Pronoun
6. Demonstrative
Pronoun

Personal Pronouns
Personal pronoun describes a

particular person or thing or

group.
Personal pronoun describes the

person speaking (I, me, we, us),

the person spoken to (you), or
the person or thing spoken

Examples.

Hehelps poor.
Sheis intelligent
Theyare playing
chess.

Possessive Pronouns
Possessive Pronoun

indicates close possession

orownershipor relationship
of a thing/person to
another thing/person.
e.g.yours, mine, his, hers,
ours, theirs, hers,

Examples.

This book ismine.

Thatcarishers.
Your book is
old.Mineis new.

Reflexive Pronoun.
Reflexivepronoun describes

noun when subjects action

affects the subject itself.
e.ghimself, yourself, herself,
ourselves, themselves, itself
arereflexivepronouns.
Reflexivepronouns
alwaysactas objects not

Examples:

I looked atmyselfin
themirror.
You should think
aboutyourself.
They
preparedthemselvesfor
completion.

ReciprocalPronouns
ReciprocalPronounsare

used when each of two or

more subjects reciprocate to
the other.
or
Reciprocalpronounsare
used when two
subjectsactin same way

Examples.

John and Marry are

talking toeach other.
The
studentsgavecards toone
another.
The people helpedone
anotherin hospital.

Relative Pronouns
Relative Pronoun describes a noun
which is mentioned before andmore
informationis to be given about it.
The most commonly used five
relativepronounsare,who, whom,
whose, which, that.
Who is for subject and whom is
used for object. who and whom
are used for people. Whose is used
to show possession and can be used

Examples.

It is the girlwhogot
first position in class.
Adjective is a
wordthatmodifies noun.
The manwhomI met
yesterday is a nice person.

Demonstrative Pronouns.
Demonstrative pronoun is a

pronoun that points to a thing

or things.
e.g. this, that, these, those,
none, neither
Thesepronounspoint to thing
or things in short distance/time
or long distance/time.

Examples

Thisis black.
Thatis heavy.
Can you
seethese?