PRONOUNS AND SUBSTITUTION

PRONOUNS AND SUBSTITUTION

PRONOUN

A pronoun is used instead of a noun (ie with no following noun) to refer to something that has been mentioned earlier or when the meaning is clear enough that another word isn't necessary.

impersonal -it

The pronoun "It" can be used to make a sentece impersonal

example:

It isn't dear what the movie is about.

indefinite pronouns

A pronoun that does not refer to any person, amount, or thing in particular, e.g. anything, something, anyone, everyone.

A personal pronoun

A personal pronoun is a short word we use as a simple substitute for the proper name of a person or a noun . Each of the English personal pronouns shows us the grammatical person, gender, number, and case of the noun it replaces. I, you, he, she, it, we they, me, him, her, us, and them are all personal pronouns.

Object pronouns

Object pronouns are those pronouns that receive the action in a sentence. They are:

me, you, him, her, us, them, and whom.

Any noun receiving an action in the sentence, like these pronouns, is an object and is categorized as objective case. ... You wouldn't ever use a subject noun after “give” here.

Possessive pronouns

Possessive pronouns show that something belongs to someone. The possessive pronouns are:

my, our, your, his, her, its, and their.

There's also an “independent” form of each one:

these pronouns: mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, and theirs

Reflexive pronouns

Reflexive pronouns are words like:

myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves and themselves.

They refer back to a person or thing. We often use reflexive pronouns when the subject and the object of a verb are the same example:

I cut myself when I was making dinner last night.

Demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are pronouns that point to specific objects. They take the place of a noun, noun phrase, activity, or situation. They always consist of:

this, these, that, those,

and sometimes include none, neither, and such.