A pronoun replaces a noun in a sentence. The noun that is replaces is called an antecedent.
Pronouns can be classified in following different ways:
Type | Nominative | Possessive | Objective | Possessive Noun | |
Singular | First Person | I | my | me | mine |
Second Person | you | your | you | yours | |
Third Person | he | his | him | his | |
she | her | her | hers | ||
it | its | it | its | ||
Plural | First Person | we | our | us | ours |
Second Person | you | your | you | yours | |
Third Person | they | their | them | theirs | |
Interrogative | who | whose | whom | whose |
Note: The possessive forms my, your, his, her, its, our and their function as adjectives when they modify a noun.
Compound personal pronouns are formed by adding -self or -selves to some personal pronouns.
Reflexive pronoun may be used as a direct object or indirect object. It usually comes after the verb.
Intensive pronoun is used to emphasize that the action is done by the antecedent.
Person | Singular | Plural |
First Person | myself | ourselves |
Second Person | yourself | yourselves |
Third Person | himself, herself, itself | themselves |
Relative pronouns like that, which, who, whom and whose are used to introduce most adjective clauses and to connect them to the main clause.
Demonstrative pronouns like this, that, these and those are used to point out specific persons or things.
Interrogative pronouns are used to ask questions. They are who, whom, whose, which and what.
Indefinite pronouns are pronouns that do not refer to a particular person or group of persons.
another | either | neither | other |
anybody | everybody | nobody | somebody |
anyone | everyone | no one | someone |
anything | everything | nothing | something |
each | much | one |
both | few | many | several |
all | enough | most | plenty |
any | more | none | some |