Pronouns 

                                                                                   


                                              Pronouns




‘A pronoun replaces a noun.’ Therefore a pronoun can function an anyplace where a noun function.

• Personal 
• Relative
• Demonstrative
• Reflexive
• Indefinite 
  

1. Personal pronouns -  Personal pronouns are the most inflectionally very class of word pronoun in English. Eg: I, me, my, mine / you, you, your, yours

2. Demonstrative pronouns – There are two types of demonstrative pronouns.  

• Close to the speaker
• Far from speaker
  

Eg: this, that, these, those

Different language divise different words.

3. Relative pronouns – There are three forms of relative pronouns; who, which, that

• Who – human
• Which – non- human (animal, inanimate)
  
• That - human or non-human
  

4. Reflexive pronouns – These pronouns follow different persons. They are compounds with two elements. 

• Person 
  
• Self
  

Eg: myself, yourself, himself, itself, ourselves…

5. Indefinite pronouns/adjectives – Indefinite adjectives sometimes call quantifiers. Sometimes uninflected. Eg: all, several, each, either, neither, many, much, most, some, one, no, no one, none.

Compounds – 1. Element of different quantifiers

                  2. four words (one, body, thing, where) – anyone, everybody, someone, none, anybody, everybody, somebody, nobody, anything, everything, something, nothing, nowhere, everywhere, somewhere, anywhere.   

   

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