Pronouns

Types of Pronouns

There are 8 types of pronouns that are as follows

1. Personal Pronouns

2. Demonstrative Pronouns

3. Possessive Pronouns

4. Reciprocal Pronouns

5. Interrogative Pronouns

6. Indefinite Pronouns

7. Reflexive Pronouns

8. Relative Pronouns

Personal Pronouns:

1. Subject Pronouns. ( I, you, he, she, it, they, you, we)

I like to watch movies, but she does not.

Personal Pronouns:

2. Object Pronouns. ( me, you, her, his, its, them, us )

Sam likes her but not me.

Subject Pronouns

1. I don’t want to go to the office in the rain.

2. He struck her on the nose.

3. He is working hard to get the award of the best employee.

4. It’s sweet.

5. He has lived there for 5 years.

Object Pronouns

1. Ask it from them and they will tell you no truth.

2. Sam will call you as soon as possible.

3. He has transmitted the information to us.

4. I helped her pull her boots off.

5. Don’t tell him the truth.

Demonstrative Pronouns

• This

• That

• These

• Those

• Such

• The same

• None

Example/s

• This is my father’s shirt.

• That looks like the toy I used to play.

• These are nice sandals, but they are uncomfortable.

• This is a delicious dish.

• None of this makes sense.

• None of the people here seem to like the dish I cooked.

• She wants to paint this.

• I want to try this.

• Such is one’s poor choice.

• Neither is yours.

Possessive Pronouns

• His/His

• Her/Her

• Mine/My

• Yours/Your

• Yours/Your

• Ours/Our

• Its/Its

• Theirs/Their

• I will wear my favorite dress for the party.

• The laptop on the table is mine.

• Who owns this car? Is it yours?

• His pants were old and worn.

• That’s mine. Please do not touch it.

• These candies are all mine.

• I had dinner with Samir and his sister.

• Is that boy your brother?

• I lost my favorite dress.

• Did you see his dog?

• This cake is mine.

Reflexive Pronouns

• Myself

• Yourself

• Itself

• Himself

• Herself

• Ourselves

• Themselves

• Yourselves

Reflexive Pronouns

• You can cook it yourself.

• He can do it by himself.

• John hurt himself.

• He admitted to himself that he was not right.

• I taught myself to cook.

• I was in a hurry, so I ironed the clothes myself.

• She wanted to impress him, so she baked a cake herself.

• He is too young to go out by himself.

Relative Pronouns

• Who

• Whom

• That

• Whose

• Which

• The man who came to our house was a salesman.

• I have never understood people who hate tea.

• The horse who won the race trained hard.

• The dress that I bought yesterday is already stained.

• Where did you buy the book that you are reading?

• That’s the place where we met.