- Citation:
EnglishClub.com Citing website. Pronouns. Retrieved January 13, 2011. from http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/pronouns.htm
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Personal Pronouns
- number: singular (eg: I) or plural (eg: we)
- person: 1st person (eg: I), 2nd person (eg: you) or 3rd person (eg: he)
- gender: male (eg: he), female (eg: she) or neuter (eg: it)
- case: subject (eg: we) or object (eg: us)
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Demonstrative Pronouns
- near in distance or time (this, these)
- far in distance or time (that, those)
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Possessive Pronouns
- number: singular (eg: mine) or plural (eg: ours)
- person: 1st person (eg: mine), 2nd person (eg: yours) or 3rd person (eg: his)
- gender: male (his), female (hers)
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Interrogative Pronouns
- who, whom, what, which
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Reflexive Pronouns
- Singular: myself
yourself
himself, herself, itself
- Plural: ourselves
yourselves
themselves
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Reciprocal Pronouns
- each other, one another
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Indefinite Pronouns
- all, another, any, anybody/anyone, anything,
each, everybody/everyone, everything,
few, many, nobody, none, one, several, some, somebody/someone
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Relative Pronouns
- There are five relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, that*
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Pronoun Case
- subjective (they act as the subject)
- objective (they act as the object)
- possessive (they show possession of something else)