There are eight kinds of pronoun. They are
1. Personal Pronouns
Personal Pronouns are those which are used in place of persons, animals, or things. They are so called, because they stand for the three persons: the first person, the second person, and the third person.
Forms of Personal Pronoun for first person
Forms of Personal Pronoun for Second Person
Forms of Personal Pronoun for Third Person
2. Interrogative Pronoun
Pronouns used for asking questions about persons or things are called Interrogative pronouns.
Examples:
The pronouns who, whom and whose are used for asking questions about persons. The pronoun which is used for asking questions about persons or things.
Forms of Interrogative Pronoun
Note: Do not get confused between interrogative pronouns and interrogative adjectives. An adjective always comes before a noun.
Examples:
3. Demonstrative Pronoun
The pronouns which are used to point the objects which they refer to, are known as demonstrative Pronoun.
Examples:
In the above sentences, this, these, that, those are used to point out the object or objects for which they are used. This and these refer to things near at hand; that and those refer to things lying at a distance. They are, therefore, called Demonstrative Pronouns.
4. Reflexive Pronouns
Reflexive Pronouns are those, where the action done by their subjects reflect upon them. Self or selves used as suffix with the pronoun in this form.
Read the following sentences.
The Pronouns myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, themselves, itself behave like objects to verbs but they refer to the same persons as the subjects to the verbs. So they are called Reflexive Pronouns.
5. Emphatic Pronoun
The pronouns which are used to put emphasis on a noun or pronoun are known as emphatic pronouns.
Examples:
The pronouns myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, themselves itself are used with a noun or a pronoun for the sake of emphasis. Hence they are called Emphatic Pronouns.
Note: Emphatic Pronoun and Reflexive Pronoun are apparently look similar but Emphatic Pronouns are used just after the subject while Reflexive Pronouns are used in place of object.
6. Relative Pronoun
The pronouns which are used to join two sentences are known as relative pronoun.
Examples:
The pronouns who, whom in the above sentences are called relative pronouns. Pronouns who, whom whose, which and that, which refer back to the noun coming before them. So they are Relative Pronouns.
Forms of Relative Pronoun
7. Indefinite Pronoun
The Pronouns which refer to a person or a thing in general way are called indefinite pronouns.
Examples:
The pronouns this refer to persons or things in a general manner. They are hence known as Indefinite Pronouns.
Note: One should always be followed by one and not him or her; as:
8. Reciprocal Pronoun
The Pronouns that show the mutual relationship are known as reciprocal pronoun.
Examples:
Here “one another” and “each other” are mutually related.
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