English: English Grammar Pronoun

Pronoun: A Pronoun is word used instead of a noun.

Ex: I, we, you, you, he, she, it, they.

There are ten kinds of pronoun. They are

1. Personal Pronoun.
2. Possessive Pronouns.
3. Reflexive Pronoun.
4. Demonstrative Pronoun.
5. Distributive Pronoun.
6. Indefinite Pronoun.
7. Reciprocal Pronoun.
8. Interrogative Pronoun.
9. Relative Pronoun.
10. Pronoun of number and Quantity.

Personal Pronoun:  There are 3 persons in English, they are 1^st person, 2^nd person, 3^rd person.

The 1^st person refers to the ‘Speaker’  (I, We)

The 2^nd person refers to the person ‘spoken to’  (you, you)

The third person refers to the person ‘spoken of’ (he, she, it, they)

Case→ Person↓	Subjective		Objective		Possessive
	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
1st Person	I	we	me	us	my mine	our ours
2nd Person	you	you	you	you	your yours	your yours
3rd Person	he she it	they	him her it	them	his her, hers, its	Their theirs

Possessive Pronoun: A possessive pronoun denotes ownership.

Person	Singular	Plural
1st Person	Mine	Ours
2nd Person	Yours	Yours
3rd Person	His Hers Its	theirs

Reflexive Pronoun: A reflexive pronoun is formed by adding ‘self’, it the singular and ‘selves’ to the plural.

Person	Singular	Plural
1st Person	myself	ourselves
2nd Person	yourself	yourselves
3rd Person	Himself Herself itself	themselves

Demonstrative Pronoun: To demonstrate is “to point out”. These pronouns point out persons or things. ‘This’ and ‘these’ are used for persons or things that are near the speaker. ‘That’ and ‘those’ refer to persons or things that are farther away from the speaker.

Ex: This is my brother’s bike.

      These are fresh flowers.

      That is the way to go out.

      Those are my old books.

Distributive Pronoun: A distributive pronoun shows ‘one’ a time.

Ex:  Everyone of my friends is a govt. employee.

       Everybody on this earth eats to live.

       Everything was grand in the party yesterday.

       Each of the five bowlers bowels 10 overs in a one day match.

Indefinite Pronoun: An Indefinite pronoun denotes an unknown person, place, or things.

Ex: someone  came for you yesterday

      As anyone come for me.

      None of the four brothers is educated.

Reciprocal Pronoun:  Each other and one another are called reciprocal pronoun.

Note: each other refers to two, one anther refers to more than two.

Ex: The two brothers always help each other.

      The four brothers always co-operate one another.

Interrogative Pronoun: These pronouns are used in asking questions. They are what, which, who, whom and whose.

Ex: Who was the chief guest of the function yesterday?

      Where have you bought this watch?

      Whom did you consult in the college?

Relative Pronoun:  A relative pronoun shows the relations between the two clauses in a sentence.

Ex: Galileo who invented the telescope was Italian.

      The book which I borrowed from you is lost.

      The candidate whom they chose for the post has not joined duty yet.

Pronoun of number and quantity: Pronoun of number when a word denoting the number of a countable noun used as a pronoun, It is a pronoun of number.

Ex: we had five subjects for examination last year but this year we have 3.

                When a word denoting the quantity of an uncountable noun used as a pronoun it is a pronoun of quantity.

Ex: There was no water in our village tank last month but after the recent rain, there is a little.