Types of pronouns: the pronouns are of following types:
1. Personal Pronoun: The pronoun used to replace a noun and represent people or things, is a personal pronoun. Such as I, me, you, it etc.
Example: I like soccer.
John runs very fast.He won the 100 m race.
Types of Personal pronouns: The personal pronouns can be:
OR
(1) Subjective personal pronouns:
He is a very good player of soccer
I want to visit England.
They were playing hockey.
(2) Objective personal pronouns:
Go play with him.
Tom knows her.
Adam helped me.
Note: Personal pronouns are categorized by person, there are three person categories:
First person: These pronouns represent the person who is speaking, such as I, me, we.
Second person: These pronouns represent the person being addressed, such as you, your.
Third person: These pronouns represent the persons who are neither speaking nor being addressed, such as he, she, they.
2. Demonstrative pronoun: The pronoun used to replace a noun and represent thing or things near or far in distance or time is a demonstrative pronoun.
Near: this, these
Example: This is my bike.
These are ugly.
Far: that, those
Example: Is that bike yours?
Those are lovely.
3. Possessive pronouns: The pronoun used to replace a noun and shows ownership or possession, is a possessive pronoun, such as my, mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs etc.
Examples: Is that my pen?
This is his bike.
4. Interrogative pronoun: The pronoun used to replace a noun and to ask a question, is an interrogative pronoun, such as what, where, whose, who, which etc.
Example: Whose book is this?
What is your name?
Note: sometimes suffix ‘-ever’ or ‘-soever’ is used to emphasis or show surprise.
Example: Whatever did you say?
Whosever is this?
5. Reflexive pronouns: The pronoun used to replace a noun which does something to itself or a noun which refers itself as a subject of the sentence. Reflexive pronouns end in ‘-self’ for singular and ‘-selves’ for plural, such as myself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves etc.
Example: They bought themselves a new car.
Tom pinched himself.
She saw herself in the mirror.
6. Intensive pronouns: A pronoun used to refer back to a noun or pronoun in order to emphasize it. Intensive pronouns are similar to reflexive pronouns, such as myself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves etc.
Example: The principal himself presented the prize.
I myself like to travel.
She spoke to me herself.
7. Indefinite pronouns: A pronoun used to refer a noun without being specific such as all, any, anyone, anything, each, everyone, everybody, nobody, none, one, several etc.
Example: Everyone must remain seated.
I have eaten everything in my fridge.
Each of the players has a doctor.
8. Reciprocal pronoun: A pronoun used to express a mutual action means to express a situation when all the subjects in the sentence acting same way to others. There are only two reciprocal pronouns (1) each other and (2) one another
Example: Both teams played hard against each other.
They all support one another.
9. Relative pronouns: A pronoun used to connect an adjective clause or phrase to noun or pronoun. Relative pronouns are five such as who, whom, which, whose, that.
Example: The dog that stole the pie is back.
The cat which I bought last year, loves to play with me.
The student whose phone just rang should stand up.
Mr. Brown who is very kind is my teacher.