Kinds of Pronouns

Definition
Personal Pronouns
Reflexive Pronouns
Emphatic Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns
Relative Pronouns
Interrogative Pronouns
Indefinite Pronouns
Distributive Pronouns
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THE PRONOUN
(1. Personal Pronoun, 2. Reflexive Pronoun, 3. Emphatic Pronoun, 4. Demonstrative
Pronoun, 5. Relative Pronoun, 6. Interrogative Pronoun, 7. Indefinite Pronoun, 8.
Distributive Pronoun)

Definition :
A pronoun is a word used instead of a common noun or a proper
noun. The word pronoun means for a noun and it called a nouns
deputy.

"Pro" + "noun" typically means "in place, of, instead of" a noun or
a noun phrase. Pronouns, then, replace nouns (David met Joe; he
[Joe] talked for an hour) and can also refer back to nouns (David is
absent, because he is ill).
CASE

Nominative Case

I We You

He She It

They

Accusative Case

Me Us You

Him Her Them

It

Instrumental Case

With me By me

With you By you

With him By him

With her By her

With it By it

With us By us

With you By you

With them By them

Dative Case

To me To us To you

To him To her To them

To it

Ablative Case

From me From us From you

From himFrom From her From them

 From it

Genitive Case

My Our Your

His Her Their

It

Locative Case

in me with me

in you with you

in him with him

in her with her

in it with it

in us with us

in you with you

in them with them

What is a noun phrase?

A noun phrase includes a noun and all of its modifiers. These
modifiers include determiners and adjectives

Noun Phrase + Verb Pronoun + Verb

Tom eats He reads

 The little boy eats

The Noun Tom and boy is replaced by the Pronoun he

PRONOUN TAKES the place of a noun in a sentence when the noun repeated more
than once.

e.g.

Incorrect Call David. I must speak to David.

Correct Call David. I must speak to him.

More Definition :
The noun represented by a pronoun is called its antecedent. The
word ante means "before," and cede means "come." So the literal
meaning of antecedent is "comes before." Usually, the antecedent
comes before the pronoun in a sentence.

Pronouns ahve masculine and feminine gender, singular and plural forms and have
nominative, possessive and objectives cases

Pronouns are used as performers/subjects or as words which receive action.

e.g.

PERFORMER / SUBJECT PRONOUNS PRONOUNS WHICH RECEIVE ACTION

I me

we you

you them
 he his

she her

it it

they him

who whom

Types of Pronouns by Function

More Definition :
There are several different types of pronouns, each type serving a
different function in the sentence.
1. Subject Pronouns

Definition :
Pronouns that are found to the left of the main verb are called
subject pronouns because they tell us who or what the doer of the
verb is, or who or what is described by the verb.