Types of Pronoun

TYPES OF PRONOUN :

There are six types of Pronoun:

       I.            Personal Pronoun

   II.            Definite Pronoun

III.            Indefinite Pronoun

 IV.            Relative Pronoun

    V.            Interrogative Pronoun

 VI.            Reflexive Pronoun

VII.            Possessive Pronoun

VIII.            Emphatic Pronoun

 IX.            Reciprocal Pronoun

1. Personal Pronoun: The word which indicates speaker, listener and any other man or woman, is called personal pronoun.

E.g:1. I was learning my lesson.

2. When did you go there?

3. He did not come here today.

* Personal Pronoun has divided into three parts:

1. First Person: It is a speaker who tells about himself.

E.g: I, We, Us, My, etc.

2. Second Person: It is a listener.

E.g: You, Your, etc.

3. Third Person: It is a absenter man about him talking is going on.

E.g: He, She, It, Them, etc.

There are three case in personal pronoun which are given below:

Person	Nominative Case	Possessive Case	Objective Case
First Person	I	My	Me
	We	Our	Us
Second Person	You	Your	You

Third Person	He	His	Him
	She	Her	Her
	They	Their	Them
	It	Its	It

2. Definite Pronoun (Demonstrative Pronoun): The word which suggests noun and used in the place of noun.

E.g: 1. These are my books.

2. Our players are more disciplined than those of the other team.

3. Indefinite Pronoun (Distributive Pronoun): The word which suggests indefinite persons or things, is called Indefinite Pronoun.

E.g:     They say that all politicians are liars.

            Everyone wants to see that film.

            None of them could swim across.

4. Relative Pronoun (Exclamatory Pronoun):It presents relation with that noun which comes before the pronoun.

E.g:     1. This is the girl whom I met in the school.

            2. This is the car which my father has given me.

5. Interrogative Pronoun: The word which is used in the starting of sentences as a question, is called Interrogative Pronoun.

E.g:     1. Whomdid he marry?

            2. What do you want?

            3. Who is knocking at the door?

6. Reflexive Pronoun: when the word- ‘self’ or ‘selves’ is added respectively my, your, him, her and our, your, them, is called Reflexive Pronoun.

E.g:     1. I helped myself.

            2. They helped themselves.

7. Possessive pronoun: Mine, ours, yours, his, here, theirs.

8. Emphatic or Emphasizing Pronoun: myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves, and oneself.

9. Reciprocal Pronoun: each other, one another.

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