Pronouns

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Pronouns

• 2nd part of speech

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Definition

• Pronouns take the place of nouns to name persons,
  places, things, or ideas.
• They can be used in different ways personal,
  indefinite, interrogative, and demonstrative.
• They have a subcategory called possessive.

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Personal Pronouns

• I, me, you, he, him, she, her, it, we, us, they,
  them

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Possessive Pronouns

• My, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our,
  ours, their, theirs
• There are no apostrophes used with possessive
  pronouns.
• Its is never possessive. Its stands for the
  contradiction that represents It is.

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Indefinite Pronouns

• Indefinite pronouns can be singular, plural, or
  both.
• Singular pronouns Anybody, anyone, another,
  anything, each, either, everyone, everything,
  neither, nobody, no one, one, somebody, someone.
• Singular pronouns are used with singular
  possessive pronouns his, her, and its.
• Ex Neither student can complete his or her work
  at home.

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Indefinite pronouns cont.

• Plural indefinite pronouns both, many, few,
  several
• Plural indefinite pronouns are used with the
  plural possessive their.
• Ex Many students voiced their concern over the
  amount of homework assigned.

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Interrogative Pronouns

• Who, whom, what, which, whose

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Demonstrative Pronouns

• This, that, these, those
• This and these point to people or things that are
  near in space or time.
• That or those point to people or things that are
  farther away in space or time.