Pronouns are used in place of nouns to avoid repetition. There are different types of pronouns including personal, possessive, demonstrative, relative, reflexive, and interrogative pronouns. Personal pronouns represent specific people or things and can be singular or plural, first, second, or third person. Possessive pronouns show ownership, and demonstrative pronouns indicate position as near or far. Relative pronouns introduce relative clauses and interrogative pronouns are used to ask questions.

2. PRONOUNS
• Pronouns are words that we use in place of Nouns (or other Pronouns)
in a sentence to make it less repetitive and less awkward.
• Pronoun could also be one of the following words:
• He/she
• It
• They
• Me
• Himself
• Somebody/everybody/anybody
• Many
• Each
• Few
• Whoever/who

3. Person
Subjective
Case
Objective Case
Possessive
Determiner
Possessive
Pronouns
Reflexive
Pronouns
First
Person Singular
I me my mine myself
Second
Person Singular
you you your yours yourself
Third
Person Singular
he/she/it him/her/it his/her/its his/hers/its himself/herself
/itself
First
Person Plural
we us our ours ourselves
Second
Person Plural
you you your yours yourselves
Third
Person Plural
they them their theirs themselves

4. Why do we use Pronouns?
• We use them to avoid repeating the nouns that they refer
to.
• Pronouns are useful words that make writing and speech
simple and effective.
• Pronouns have different forms for the different ways are
used them. A different pronoun is required depending on
two elements:-
The noun being replaced and the function that noun
has in the sentence.

5. TYPES OF PRONOUNS
• Personal Pronouns
• Possessive Pronouns
• Demonstrative Pronouns
• Relative Pronouns
• Reflexive and Emphatic Pronouns
• Interrogative Pronouns

6. PERSONAL PRONOUNS
• Personal pronouns represent specific people or things.
• We use them depending on:-
• Number:- Singular (I) or plural (We)
• Person:- 1st person (I), 2nd person (You), and 3rd person (He)
• Gender:- Male( He), Female (She) and neuter (It).
• Case:- Subject (We) or Object (Us).
We use personal pronouns in place of the person or people
that we are talking about.

8. EXAMPLES OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS
Examples:-
1) I like coffee.
2) John helped me.
3) Do you like coffee?
4) John loves you.
5) He runs fast.
6) Did Ram beat him?
7) She is clever.
8) Does Mary know her?

9. POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
• A possessive pronoun is a word that replaces a noun (or a
noun phrase) and shows ownership.
• The possessive pronouns are "mine," "yours," "his,"
"hers," "ours," and "theirs.“
• We use possessive pronouns depending on:-
• Number: Singular (mine) or Plural (ours).
• Person: 1st person (mine) 2nd person (yours) and 3rd person
(his)
• Gender: Male (his) and Female (hers).

11. EXAMPLES OF POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
• Examples:-
1) Her parents were far more liberal than mine.
2) You probably picked up my keys instead of yours.
3) You probably picked up my keys instead of his.
4) Your account of events does not correspond with her.
5) Your dormitory is no better than ours.
6) His view eventually prevailed over theirs.
7) Our house is not comparable with yours.

12. SINGULAR PLURAL
USEDBEFORE
PRONOUNS
My, your, his, her, its Our, your, their
USEDALONE Mine, yours, his, hers, its Ours, yours, theirs

13. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS
• A demonstrative pronoun is a pronoun that represents a
noun and expresses its position as near or far (including in
time).
• The demonstrative pronouns are "this," "that," "these," and
"those.“
• Demonstrative Pronouns represent thing and things.

14. EXAMPLES OF DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS
• Examples:-
1) This is the one I want.
2) Harry, this is Joan.
3) Come and look at this.
4) That’s a very good idea.
5) Can I have one of these?
6) These are my pets.
7) This is my pen.

15. RELATIVE PRONOUNS
• Relative pronoun is a pronoun that introduces a relative
clause. It is called a “relative” pronoun because it is
“related” to the word that it modifies.
• Five relative Pronouns:- who, whom, whose, which, that
• The function of a relative pronoun is to head (or introduce)
an adjective clause.

16. EXAMPLES OF RELATIVE PRONOUN
• Examples:-
1) Who are all those people?
2) To whom do you wish to speak?
3) Where is my T-shirt?
4) When are you going?
5) Why did you choose me?
6) What size shoes do you take?
7) Which of your parents do you feel closer to?

17. REFLEXIVE AND EMPHATIC PRONOUN
• Reflexive pronoun is used with an active voice verb to
reflect the action of the verb on the subject the antecedent.
• Emphatic pronoun accompanied its antecedent to
accentuate its action/ state.
• Reflexive and emphatic pronouns take different positions
within the sentence structure.
• We use a reflexive pronoun when we want to refer back to
the subject of the sentence or clause. Reflexive pronouns
end in “-self” (singular) or “-selves” (plural).

19. EXAMPLES OF REFLEXIVE AND EMPHATIC PRONOUN
• Examples:-
1) I cook myself.
2) He cooks himself.
3) You will cook yourself.
4) She cooks herself.
5) The dog ate itself.
6) She will go herself.
7) He will go himself.
8) You will hurt yourself.

20. INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS
• We use interrogative pronouns to ask questions.
• It represents the thing that we don’t know (what we are
asking the question about).
• Four main interrogative pronouns:- who, whom, what,
which.

22. EXAMPLES OF INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS
• Examples:-
1) What is that?
2) Which is yours?
3) Who did it?
4) Whom shall we ask?
5) Whose is this?
6) Whatever did you say?
7) Whosever is this?