Pronouns

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Pronouns

What is a pronoun?

Example

Sarah has always loved fashion. Sarah announced that Sarah wants to go to fashion school.

Sarah has always loved fashion. She announced that she wants to go to fashion school.

Pronouns make up a small subcategory of nouns. The distinguishing characteristic of pronouns is that they can be substituted for other nouns.

Antecedents:

The sign was too far away for Henry to read it.

John gave Mary a recipe. She is a talented cook.

An antecedent is a noun or noun phrase that you mention at the beginning of a sentence or story and later replace with a pronoun.

Lina wanted to cut her hair herself.

We use subject pronouns as the subject of a verb. Their function is to replace the noun in a sentence. A personal pronoun can be in one of three “persons.” A first-person pronoun refers to the speaker, a second-person pronoun refers to the person being spoken to, and a third-person pronoun refers to the person being spoken of. For each of these three grammatical persons, there is a plural as well.

Personal Pronouns

Demonstrative Pronouns

They take the place of a noun or noun phrase that has already been mentioned. This is used for singular items that are nearby. These is used for multiple items that are nearby. That is used for singular items that are far away. Those is used for multiple items that are far away.

Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns

pronouns, but their purpose is different. Intensive pronouns add emphasis.

Use a reflexive pronoun when both the subject and object of a verb refer to the same person or thing. Intensive pronouns look the same as reflexive

Relative Pronouns

They are used to connect relative clauses to independent clauses. Often, they introduce additional information about something mentioned in the sentence.

Indefinite Pronouns

They are used when you need to refer to a person or thing that doesn’t need to be specifically identified. When indefinite pronouns function as subjects of a sentence or clause, they usually take singular verbs.

Possessive Pronouns

We use pronouns to refer to possession and ‘belonging’. There are two types: possessive pronouns and possessive determiners. We use possessive determiners before a noun. We use possessive pronouns in place of a noun.

Interrogative Pronouns:

Interrogative pronouns are used in questions to ask for specific information.

who - people subjectwhat - objects, animals whom - people object whose - possession which - objects where - places when - spcific time how - manner

An object pronoun, also called objective pronoun, functions as the object of a verb or preposition, as distinguished from a subject or subjective pronoun, which is the subject of a verb.

Object Pronouns

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