What is a Pronoun and Kinds of Pronoun

What is a Pronoun?

A word that is used instead of a noun is called a pronoun

Exp: Nasir went to a bookshop.

        He went to a bookshop.

 

Kinds of Pronoun

1. Personal Pronoun
2. Possessive Pronoun
3. Reflexive Pronoun
4. Relative Pronoun
5. Interrogative Pronoun

 1: Personal Pronoun

This person is used for three persons.

1.       First Person ( Speaking )

2.       Second Person ( Spoken )

3.       Third person ( Spoken about )

 

Personal Pronouns

	Person		Subjects	Objects
Singular	1st Person		I	Me
	2nd Person		You	You
	3rd person		He, She, It	Him, Her, It
Plural	1st Person	We		Us
	2nd Person	You		You
	3rd Person	They		Them

 

2: Possessive Pronoun

The Pronoun shows possession of any noun or pronoun.

Note: No noun is used after the possessive pronoun.

Exp: This book is mine.

Possessive Pronoun is:

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

 

3: Reflexive Pronoun

The Pronoun which does not reflective of work upon the subject of the sentence is called a Reflexive pronoun.

Exp: He cut himself with a knife.

Reflexive pronoun: Himself, Herself, Itself, Yourselves, Ourselves, Themselves.

 

4: Relative Pronoun

A Relative Pronoun is used about a noun and modfies and gives more information about the same noun.

Relative pronouns are those pronouns that join relative clauses and relative sentences.

Exp: She is the girl, who sang a song.

Relative Pronoun is which, that, whom, whose, who.