Personal pronouns are the most important pronouns.

They are used as the subject of the sentence direct

object, indirect object, object of preposition, predicate
nominative, appositive and possessive.
Person Singular Plural
First person I we
Second person you you
Third person He, she, it they

Examples:
1. I love her.
2. I saw the bag.
3. We know each other.
4. The cat saw you.
5. He knows everything.
6. I know her.
7. He cheated on me.
8. She bite the apple.
9. We deserve an explanation.
Compound personal pronoun are called reflexive and
intensive pronouns. Self and selves are added to the
personal pronouns.
I – myself We – ourselves
You – yourself You – yourselves
He – himself they – themselves
She – herself
It – itself

Reflexive – the pronouns refers back to the subject

Examples:
1. She know herself.
2. He bathed himself.
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Intensive – the nouns or pronouns in the subject.
Examples:
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Interrogative pronouns are used in asking questions
who, whose, whom, which, and what are interrogative
pronouns.
Examples:
1. Who is your favourite singer?
2. Who is our new president?
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Demonstrative pronouns points out to define persons,
places and things. This, that, these, those are the
demonstrative pronouns.
Examples:
1. This bag is mine.
2. That phone is yours.
3. This are pencils.
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Indefinite pronouns do not point out particular person,
things, places, and things. The most common indefinite
pronouns are: all, any, anybody, somebody, someone,
something, everything, both, none, many, several,
some, each, either, neither, none, nothing, one, other
etc.
Examples:
1. Some people aren’t satisfied of what are they.
2. Everybody listens to her speech.
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Relative pronouns join the clause to its own antecedent.
Who, whom, whose, which, that are the common
relative pronouns.
Examples:
1. This is the chair that I make.
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Reciprocal pronouns express mutual relationship. They
are used as object of verbs or preposition. Each other
and one another are examples of reciprocal pronouns.

Examples:
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Numerical pronouns include the cardinal numbers: one,
two, three etc.
Ordinal numbers: first, second, third etc.
Examples:
1. The two of them should help their parents.
2. The first of the three girls was advised to put her
report in the office.
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Possessive
Nominative Objectives
Person (shows
(Subject) (Object)
ownership)
S P S P S P
1st Person I We Me As Mine/ Our/
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Yo Your/ Your/
2ndPerson You You You
u Yours yours
3rdPerson
Him/
masculine He His
his
Their/
They Her/ They
feminine She Hers theirs
hers
common It its Its