Easy Grammar Skills (Pronoun)

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Pronoun

Replacement of noun is called Pronoun.
There are following types of pronoun:
  1. Personal Pronoun
  2. Relative Pronoun
  3. Reflexive Pronoun
  4. Emphatic Pronoun/Intensive Pronoun
  5. Distributive Pronoun
  6. Demonstrative Pronoun
  7. Interrogative Pronoun
  8. Possessive Pronoun
  9. Indefinite Pronoun
  10. Reciprocal Pronoun

1. Personal Pronoun

There are three persons:
1st person - Speaker - I,We
2nd person - Audience - You
3rd person - Object - He, She, It, They

2. Relative Pronoun

A pronoun which creates a relation of subject or object to the another sentence. 
Example: He is the boy who helped me.
i.e. who,which,what,that etc.

3. Reflexive Pronoun

A pronoun that reflects the action back to the subject.
Example: He has done it himself
i.e. myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves.

4. Emphatic/Intensive Pronoun

When a reflexive pronoun comes with subject, it becomes emphatic/intensive pronoun.
Example: I myself have done it.

5. Distributive Pronoun

A pronoun which shows distribution.
Example: Everyone is waiting there for you.

6. Demonstrative Pronoun

 A pronoun which is used to demonstrate something.
Example: This is a ball.
i.e. This, That, These, Those.

7. Interrogative Pronoun

A pronoun that is used to ask a question.
Example: Where do you live?
i.e. what, why, when, where, whose, whom, which, how.

8. Possessive Pronoun

A pronoun which shows possession on something or someone.
Example: That bag is mine.
i.e. mine, ours, yours, his, hers, theirs, its

9. Indefinite Pronoun

A pronoun which indicates uncertain subject or object.
Example: Someone is calling you.

10. Reciprocal Pronoun

A pair of words that come to show mutual sharing of the same work.
Example: They both help each other.
                 They all help one another.

Case of pronoun

There are three cases of pronoun also: Subjective, Objective and Possessive.

Subjective

I, We, You, He, She, It, They

Objective

Me, Us, You, Him, Her, It, Them

Possessive

Mine, Ours, Yours, His, Hers, Its, Theirs





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