PRONOUN AND IT's KINDS

 PRONOUN 

  A Pronoun is a word which is used in place of a Noun.

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Example : Hari is absent because Hari is ill. 

To avoid repetition of the Noun Hari we'll use he in place of Hari , as ;

Hari is absent because he is ill. 

 Types Of Pronoun 

1. Personal Pronoun
2. Possessive Pronoun
3. Demonstrative Pronoun
4. Reflexive Pronoun
5. Relative Pronoun
6. Reciprocal Pronoun 

 * Personal Pronoun

A Personal Pronoun refers a specific person or object or group of things directly.

Example : He, she, it, they, I, me, you, him, whom, her, them, etc.

A personal pronoun describes a person or a thing in the following ways : 

1st Person : the person who speaks (I ,Me ,we ,us)

2nd Person: the person who is spoken to ( You )

3rd Person : the person or thing which is spoken about (he,she,it,them,her,him,them)

Examples : 

• She shouted for help.
• He bought some nice books
• I am young.
• We are young.

* Possessive Pronoun

A Possessive Pronoun describes a possession to or an ownership of or relationship to a noun.

Example : His, Yours, Hers, Mine, Theirs, Ours, etc.

Ex : 

• This book is yours.
• The key is mine.
• The pen is hers.
• The hours is ours.
• The garden is theirs.
• The knife is his.
• He lost his book. He need yours.

 

* Reflexive Pronoun 

A Reflexive Pronoun expresses a noun when the subject's action affects the subject itself. 

Example : myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves.

Ex : 

• I hurt myself.
• You will hurt yourself.
• She locked herself in a room.
• They considered themselves  the happiest people of the world. 
• We hurt ourselves. 
• The food fermented itself.

*Reciprocal Pronoun

A Reciprocal Pronoun is used when two or more nouns are reciprocating to each other or one another in  some action.

There are two reciprocal pronouns : 

 

• One another
• Each other

Examples :

• Two kids pushed each other.
• Vibhu and Rimi love each other.
• Two people in engagement ceremony greeted one another. 
• Two players in the basketball match mistakenly collided with one another.

 

* Relative Pronoun 

A Relative Pronoun is a word which is used in the relation to a noun and modifies the same noun. 

Example : which, who, that, whom, whose, etc.

1. She is the girl, who sings songs. 

'who' is the Relative Pronoun that modifies the noun.

• It is the dog who barks at the strangers.
• I met Hari who had just returned.
• Here is the book that you lent me.
• I have found the pen which I had lost.

* Demonstrative Pronoun 

A Demonstrative Pronoun is the pronoun that points out to a noun.

Example : This, That, These, Those, such, than, neither, nor.

• This book is mine.
• That pen is yours.
• These books are mine.
• Those pens are yours.
• What was that noise?
• This horse is better than that horse.
• The rivers of America are larger than those of Europe.

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