a chart of all pronouns with examples
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1. Personal pronouns: I, you, he, she, it, we they, me, him, her, us, and them are all personal pronouns. Personal pronouns are the stunt doubles of grammar; they stand in for the people (and perhaps animals) who star in our sentences.
Eg: John has sent you an email.
2. Possessive pronoun: Possessive pronouns show that something belongs to someone. The possessive pronouns are my, our, your, his, her, its, and their. There's also an “independent” form of each of these pronouns: mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, and theirs. Possessive pronouns are never spelled with apostrophes.
Eg: This bag is mine.
3. Reflexive Pronoun: In English, these are the pronouns that end with “self” or “selves”: e.g., “himself,” “myself,” “ourselves,” etc. The following can be considered a rule with regards to reflexive pronouns: If the object and the subject of a verb are the same, use a reflexive pronoun for the object. Otherwise, do not use one.
Eg: I myself did my homework.
4. Relative pronoun: A relative pronoun is one which is used to refer to nouns mentioned previously, whether they are people, places, things, animals, or ideas. ... There are only a few relative pronouns in the English language. The most common are which, that, whose, whoever, whomever, who, and whom.
Eg: Lisa was the person which I talked yesterday with.
5. Demonstrative pronoun: Pronouns that point to specific things: this, that, these, and those, as in “This is an apple,” “Those are boys,” or “Take these to the clerk.” The same words are used as demonstrative adjectives when they modify nouns or pronouns: “this apple,” “those boys.”
Eg: This was the necklace which was given by my grandfather to me.
6. Interrogative pronoun: An interrogative pronoun is a pronoun which is used to make asking questions easy. The five interrogative pronouns are what, which, who, whom, and whose.
Eg: Who are you?