Parts of Speech Part 3 (Pronoun)

Pronoun

“The word which is used in the  place of noun is called pronoun.”

There are some examples of pronoun e.g. he, who, himself, somebody, nobody, that, each, either, what and which etc.

There are seven types of a pronoun as following:

• Personal Pronoun

Personal pronouns are divided in two categories i.e. Persons and Cases. Both are used regarding number and gender.There are three persons: First Person [(I, We) used by speaker] Second Person [(You) used for addressee] Third Person [(He, She, It, They) used for vanish] and three cases: Subjective case [(He, She, It, They) used in the place of subject] Possessive case [(His, Her, Its, They) used to show possession] Objective case [(Him,Her,It,Them) used in the place of object]

The table below shows classification of personal pronouns.

Person	Number	Gender	Nominative Case	Possessive Case		Objective Case
First	Singular	Common	I	My	Mine	Me
	Plural	Common	We	Our	Ours	Us
Second	Singular	Common	Thou	Thy	Thine	Thee
	Singular   & Plural	Common	You	Your	Yours	You
Third	Singular	Masculine	He	His	His	Him
		Feminine	She	Her	Hers	Her
		Neuter	It	Its	Its	It
	Plural	Common	They	Their	Theirs	Them

★ Possessive case columns 

All pronouns of first column of possessive case are used before noun, and all pronouns of second column of possessive case are used after noun. For example, this is my pen. My is used before pen and this pen is mine, mine is used after pen. 

★ Order of pronouns 

If all of three persons (first, second and third) Come together in a single sentence, pronoun of second person will take place first then third person pronoun will take place second and after all first person pronoun will take place third. For example . You, he and I will go to bazaar tomorrow. In other hand, if we want to mention any mistake or excuses in a sentence, order of persons will be arranged as follow,I, he and you will steel eggs.

• Relative Pronoun

Such words which are used to combine two or more sentences are called relative pronoun. For example, I met my friend who is fond of hockey. In this sentence, “who” is a relative pronoun. Besides famous relative pronoun are these: whom, whose, which, and that.

• Reflexive Pronoun

It is also called compound personal pronoun because it is made by adding "self" at the end of personal pronoun.For example,"himself is a reflexive pronoun"in this sentence,him is an objective case of personal pronoun and self is an adding word.Reflexive pronouns are used to make a sentence emphatic .Here are some examples of  reflexive  pronoun e.g. himself,herself,myself,yourself, itself etc.

• Indefinite Pronoun

Some or somebody,one or nobody,many,anyone etc are the examples of indefinite pronoun.Keep in mined!if a noun comes after these words which are stated above so these words will become adjective.For example,some books are lying on the table.In this sentence, some is an adjective not pronoun. Because books is a noun that comesoaoaftes.

• Demonstrative Pronoun

These four words (This,These,Those,That) are demonstrative pronoun.These are used to demonstrate/hint for other thing.For example,"this is my laptop",In this sentence "this" is a demonstrative pronoun.

• Distributive Pronoun

Each,Either and neither are only three distributive

pronoun.These demonstrate only one thing in same time.For example,"each of these boys knows how to swim" in this sentence, "each" is a distributive pronoun.

• Interrogative Pronoun

To ask a question interrogative pronouns are used.There are only four interrogative pronoun (Who,Whose,Whom,Which).

These words are also used as a relative pronoun but usage of these is obvious.For example,

1. I met my friend who is fond of painting.

2. Who is fond of painting?

In first sentence "who" is a relative pronoun and in second sentence "who" is an interrogative pronoun.