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You must be baffled to read out it why your English is not complete without it. A pronoun is really an important topic to learn for a linguistic student or whoever else aspires after learning English Grammar. Pronouns are the second stair in the staircase of the English language. People often make loopholes just because they are not familiar with the accurate rules of how to use them therefore, we are here to help you out. Go through the article and have these rules at your fingertips to speak English
grammatically correct.
What is the Pronoun definition?
A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun or a word that comes in the place of a noun.
A basic example of a pronoun. Rahul is my best friend. He sits with me. He always comes on time. He helps me complete my H.W.
(Written correctly reason: He is used for masculine gender)
You may have an idea about the essentiality of
pronouns after reading grammatically correct sentences.
How many types of pronouns are there
in English?
|
S no. |
Name |
|
1 |
Personal Pronoun |
|
2 |
Demonstrative Pronoun |
|
3 |
Reciprocal Pronoun |
|
4 |
Interrogative Pronoun |
|
5 |
Reflexive Pronoun |
|
6 |
Indefinite Pronoun |
|
7 |
Emphatic Pronoun |
|
8 |
Relative Pronoun |
|
9 |
Possessive Pronoun |
|
10 |
Distributive Pronoun |
Personal Pronoun
|
Person |
Subjective |
Gender |
|
First person |
I |
Common |
|
We |
Common |
|
|
Second Person |
You |
Common |
|
Third Person |
They |
Common |
|
She |
Feminine |
|
|
He |
Masculine |
|
|
It |
Neuter |
The above tables represent the personal pronoun. Let’s know it in more detail with pronoun
examples.
First-person always starts a conversation hence I & We are the first persons.
‘I’ is used for singular and ‘We’ for plural including I.
1. This is Sonu. I am a software engineer.
2. Raju and I work with each other because we are in the same company.
(we including I)
The second person ‘You’
participates in the conversation by listening to it and adding additional
points to it.
‘You’ is used for both Singular and Plural.
1. You are an adorable teacher. (Singular)
2. You all are students and it is your duty to follow the rules. (Plural)
The third person participates in the conversation indirectly because the first and the second person talk about the third person (They, She, He, and It).
I am telling someone (You) about these persons.
1. They are my classmates.
2. She is my mother who is in a red dress
3. He is my brother with an umbrella in his hand.
4. It is my laptop.
Reciprocal Pronoun
This pronoun is used to tell the relation between two or more than two things. It shows mutuality.
| Pronoun | Used for |
| Each other | 2 persons/things |
| One another | More than 2 |
Each Other
1. Romeo and Juliet loved each other. (both does the same action)
2. My and I chat with each other regularly at night.
One Another
1. All the players cooperate with one another to win the trophy.
2. She, her daughter, and her husband have dinner with one another at 8 p.m.
{W.h.f word + verb + sub+ ?}
This pronoun is used to make questions with the help of using the below words.
|
Interrogative word |
Cause |
|
What |
Non-living Object |
|
When |
Time |
|
Why |
Reason |
|
Who |
Subject |
|
Whose |
Possession |
|
Whom |
Living Object |
|
Which |
Selection |
|
Where |
Place |
|
How |
Manner |
‘What’ is used to get the object from a sentence.
1. What did you prepare for this New Year?
2. What do you like to study?
‘When’ is used to get the time.
1. When is your birthday?
2. When do you get up in the morning?
‘Why’ is used to get the reason.
1. Why are late today?
2. Why have not submitted your project yet?
‘Who’ is used to get the subject.
1. Who helped you with exams?
2. Who will marry you?
‘Whose’ is used to get ownership.
1. Whose bike did you borrow to have a ride?
2. Whose idea was it to bunk the class?
‘Whom’ is used to get the living objects.
1. Whom did you hit while driving?
2. With whom do you want to go for a long drive?
‘Which’ is used to get selection.
1. Which is your favorite color?
2. Which book do you think is the better?
‘Where’ is used to get the place.
1. Where did you use to place as a kid?
2. Where would you like to go?
‘How’ is used to get the manner.
1. How did you learn English?
2. How do you write so meaningfully?
Demonstrative Pronoun
(This & That, These & Those)
· Make sure you use verbs just after these demonstrative words else it will be a wrong use.
This
This worked for me as a miracle.
This is my way to deal with different people.
That
That is a powerful technique to get rid of mental stress.
That is the school where I studied.
These
These are important documents.
These used to be colorful walls earlier.
Those
Those are footballers.
Those laid the foundation of a green park.
Reflexive Pronoun
|
Subjective case |
Reflexive Pronoun |
|
I |
Myself |
|
We |
Ourselves |
|
You |
Yourself/Yourselves |
|
They |
Themselves |
|
She |
Herself |
|
He |
Himself |
|
It |
Itself |
Reflexive pronouns are used to emphasize the subject. These usually come at the last and makes a strong sense of the subject.
Myself
I can easily do the work of five persons myself.
I will prove myself to the world.
We never thought even in our dreams we would build a website ourselves.
Yourself / Yourselves
You invented the flying car in your dream yourself.
You will have to plant trees
to make this Earth greener yourselves together.
Romu, Stephen, and his friends enjoyed themselves at a carnival.
Hunny makes the important decisions himself.
Hopefully, it was really a nice article to introduce you to the latest pronoun rules altogether. It will certainly help you reform the errors that you had not repeated earlier. It was just a little step in the long journey of learning English grammar step by step. I hope you enjoyed learning the necessary rules about Pronouns.
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