1. What are the types of Pronouns?
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Personal Pronouns. Personal pronouns are used in place of a specific person or thing. ...
Demonstrative Pronouns. ...
Relative Pronouns. ...
Reciprocal Pronouns. ...
Indefinite Pronouns. ...
Interrogative Pronouns. ...
Reflexive Pronouns. ...
Intensive Pronouns.
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What is a pronoun?
A pronoun is “any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference,” such as I, you, he, this, it, who, what.
Common types of pronouns
Personal pronouns
Personal pronouns take the place of people or things. They can be either singular or plural, depending whether they refer to one or multiple nouns. Examples include I, me, we, and us.
Personal pronouns are usually either the subject of a sentence or an object within a sentence. Each personal pronoun has different forms depending on its function. For example, if a writer is referring to himself, he should use I if he’s the subject of a sentence, as in “I saw the dog.” If he’s the object, he should use me, as in “The dog saw me.”
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Possessive pronouns
Possessive pronouns are personal pronouns that also indicate possession of something. They have singular forms (like my), and plural forms (like our). These pronouns often appear before the possessed item, but not always. For example, both “my car” and “the car is mine” both indicate who owns the car.
Relative pronouns
A relative pronoun starts a clause (a group of words that refer to a noun). Who, that, and which are all relative pronouns. They can also serve as other types of pronouns, depending on the sentence. For example, in “I saw the dog that you own,” the relative pronoun that is the beginning of the clause that you own, which describes the dog.
Reflexive pronouns
When a subject performs an action on itself, the sentence uses a reflexive pronoun after the verb. Reflexive pronouns include myself, himself, themselves, and herself. An example of a reflexive pronoun is the common expression “I kicked myself.”
Intensive pronouns
Intensive pronouns are similar to reflexive pronouns, but have a different function in a sentence. An intensive pronoun is not a necessary part of a sentence and serves only to add emphasis to its antecedent. For example: I told the children that you yourself would bake the cake today. In this sentence, yourself is an intensive pronoun that repeats the idea that you are making the cake. (Better get to it then!)