Pronouns

Pronoun words are used in place of nouns. They help avoid repeating the nouns.

Kinds of Pronoun

• Personal Pronouns
• Reflexive Pronouns
• Demonstrative Pronouns
• Interrogative Pronouns
• Relative Pronouns

Personal Pronouns

Personal Pronouns are pronouns that we use in place of names of persons, animals, places and things.

The pronouns I, me, we, us, you, he, she, it, him, her, they, them are Personal Pronouns.

Pronouns can act as subjects and objects in sentences. They also show belonging or ownership.

Cases of Personal Pronouns

Subjective Case	Objective Case	Possessive Case
I	me	mine
you	you	yours
he, she, it	him, her, it	his, hers
we	us	ours
they	them	theirs
who	whom	whose

Demonstrative Pronouns

Demonstrative Pronouns point out the nouns to which they refer.

This, that, these and those are Demonstrative Pronouns.

Read the demonstrative pronouns used to indicate objects that are close or far

Demonstrative pronouns	Distance of the object	Number of the object	Examples
this	close to speaker/writer	singular	This is your final score.
these	close to speaker/writer	plural	These are delicious to eat.
that	far from speaker/writer	singular	That is my friend's house.
those	far from speaker/writer	plural	Those are my books.

Relative Pronouns

A relative pronoun refer back or relates to the noun mentioned before it.

Examples

• The man who gave me this parcel was wearing a blue uniform.
• I like watching films that have good music.
• The girl whose book you took is waiting outside.

• 'Who' and 'whom' are used for persons.
• 'Which' is used for things and animals.
• 'Whose' and 'that' are used for persons, things and animals.

Reflexive Pronouns

Reflexive Pronouns are used when the doer of an action also receives the action. In other words, the doer acts on itself.

Read this table to understand how personal pronouns change into reflexive pronouns:

Person	Singular		Plural
	Personal	Reflexive	Personal	Reflexive
First	I	Myself	We	Ourselves
Second	You	Yourself	You	Yourselves
Third	He She It	Himself Herself Itself	They	Themselves

Interrogative Pronouns

Interrogative Pronouns are pronouns that introduce questions.

They include the words who, whom, which, whose, what, etc.

Who and whom are used for persons only; which is used for both persons and things; what is used for some information only. Examples :

• What are those black marks on your shirt?
• Whom do you want to meet?
• Whose is this newspaper?