Pronouns are words that we use in
the place of nouns in a sentence to make it less repetitive and less awkward.
Subject
Pronouns
A subject pronoun is a pronoun
that acts for the subject of the sentence. For Example;
I am fat
We are
elder
You are slim
You are
athletic
He is tall
She is
gorgeous
It is large
They are
obese
Object
Pronouns
An object pronoun is a type of
personal pronoun that is normally used as a grammatical object, either as the
direct or indirect object of a verb, or as the object of a preposition. These
pronouns always take the objective case, whether they are indirect object
pronouns or direct object pronouns.
Me
- Can
you help me?
You
– I
know you.
Him
– She
is not in love with him.
Her
– He
phones her every day.
It
– I
don’t like it.
Us
– Wait
for us.
Them – Call them in the evening
See also : Preposition
Possessive
Pronouns
The Possessive Pronoun is a
pronoun that is used to indicate possession and ownership.
Mine
– This
is my laptop. It’s mine
Yours
– These
glasses are mine, not yours.
His
– This
is my brother’s book. It’s his.
Hers
– He
offered to swap his camera for hers.
Ours
– I’ll
show you to your room. Ours is next
door
Yours
– The
house is yours.
Theirs
– The
ship is theirs.
Reflexive
Pronouns
Reflexive pronouns are used when
a person or thing is referring to the same person or thing.
Myself
– I
have told myself that a hundred
times.
Yourself
– You
are too young to go out by yourself.
Himself
– He
took the whiskey bottles out of the cabinet poured himself a drink
Herself
– Jennifer
prepared herself for the journey.
Itself
– This
chair automatically adjusts itself
to your height.
Ourselves
– We
can amuse ourselves for an hour or
two.
Yourselves
– Did
you see it yourselves?
Themselves
– Children
will educate themselves under right
conditions.
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