Types of Pronoun of parts of speech in English grammar

Pronouns

A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun. The noun being referred to is called the antecedent. The antecedent made clear the identity of the pronoun.

Example of Pronoun

The woman said that she is thirsty.

In this example woman is “antecedent” and “she” is a pronoun. The pronoun “she” is referring back to the noun “woman”.

There are different types of pronouns

1. Personal Pronoun
2. Possessive Pronoun
3. Intensive Pronoun
4. Reflexive Pronoun
5. Demonstrative Pronoun
6. Indefinite Pronoun
7. Relative Pronoun
8. Reciprocal Pronoun
9. Interrogative Pronoun

Personal Pronoun

The pronouns refer to a specific thing or person in a sentence and we can divide them into two parts.

(Nominative and Objective)

In a sentence nominative, personal pronouns stand for the “subject” (he, she, it, I, we, you, and they)

Examples of Personal Pronouns

· She went to school after breakfast.
· They should not go to the office if they are tired.

On the other hand, objective personal pronoun acts as the object of a sentence (her, him, me, them, and +us)

Examples:
· Adam went out with Nana and me.
· Adnan did not agree with her.

Intensive Pronoun

These are the pronouns that are only used to place stress on the subject and they are not important to the meaning of the sentence.

These pronouns look exactly like reflexive pronouns, but we always write them next to the subject as they are stressing (herself, myself, himself, etc.)

Example Intensive Pronoun

· She herself should not go to the seminar.

Note:-We write the pronoun “herself” only to show stress on the subject “she” the meaning of the sentence is not changed.

Possessive Pronoun

These pronouns show ownership (her/hers, your/yours, my/mine, his, its, our/ours, and their/theirs)
Examples of Possessive Pronouns:

· That house is yours.
· My cat is on the table.

Reflexive Pronoun

These pronouns are showing the subject of the sentence as the receiver of the action of the verb (herself, himself, itself, myself, ourselves, themselves, and yourself)

Examples Reflexive Pronoun

· You can write the story yourself.
· They cannot handle the crowd themselves.

Demonstrative Pronoun

These pronouns are used to identify nouns and we also use to answer the questions (this, that, those, these)

Examples Demonstrative Pronoun

· This is the restaurant that Adam was talking about.

· These are the stories that Sara was talking about.

Note:-In these sentences pronouns “this” and “these “identify which restaurant and stories Adam and Sara were talking about.

Indefinite Pronoun

These pronouns are used to show the position of a thing or person which is not known or not special. These pronouns are also used to describe a common group of people or things (several, many, few, some, each, and every, someone, everyone, everybody, etc.)

Examples of Indefinite Pronouns

· All of the children were happy for a birthday party.
· Everybody in the town was excited about the medical camp.

Relative Pronoun

These are the pronouns that show facts to nouns or other pronouns in a sentence (who, whom, that, which, whatever, whichever, etc.)

Examples of Relative Pronouns

Who is used to refer to a subject?

· Who write that answer?
· Who is your neighbor?

Whom is used to refer to an object.

· With whom you are talking?
· The speech should be spoken to whom?

Note:- You can see personal pronouns in which “who” worked as a nominative pronoun, while “whom” worked as an objective pronoun.

Reciprocal Pronoun

We use these pronouns to describe a common set of people (one another, each other, one another’s, each other’s.)

Examples Reciprocal Pronoun

· We should not abuse each other.
· They succeeded to take each other’s addresses.

Interrogative Pronoun

These pronouns are only used to mention a question (which, whom, who, whose, what)

Examples Interrogative Pronoun

· Who is that child?
· Whom one of those children was yours?