Types of Pronouns

 

Types of Pronouns :-

Pronouns are words that are used to replace nouns in a sentence. There are several types of pronouns in English, including personal pronouns, possessive pronouns, reflexive pronouns, relative pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, and indefinite pronouns etc.

1:- Personal pronouns:- These are used to refer to specific people or things. They include:

First persons: I, me, my, mine ; we, us, our, ours

Second person: you, your, yours

Third person: he, him, his; she, her, hers; it, its; they, them, their

2:- Possessive pronouns:- These are used to show ownership or possession. They include:

First person: mine, my

Second person: yours, your

Third person: his, hers, its, their

3:- Reflexive pronouns:- These are used to refer back to the subject of the sentence. They include:

myself

yourself

himself

herself

itself   etc.

4:- Relative pronouns:- These are used to introduce clauses that modify nouns or pronouns. These pronouns are used in context to any situation. For example: "He is the man whom I met yesterday". They include:

who

whom

whose

that

which

5:- Demonstrative pronouns:- These are used to point out specific people or things. They include:

this

that

these

those

6:- Indefinite pronouns:- These are used to refer to people or things without specifying which ones. They include:

all

another

any

anyone

anything

each

everybody

everyone

everything

few

many

neither

nobody

none

one

several

some

somebody

someone

something

7:- Definite pronouns:- All the personal, possessive and objective cases of pronouns can be called the definite pronouns as they refer to the specific and particular things/objects or persons etc.

8:- Reciprocal prouns:- These include:

Each other     and    one another

9:- Interrogative pronouns:- The pronouns that are used to make questions like; what, when, why, where, whoever, who, which, whose, whom etc.