Pronouns and references

It is used to avoid repetition- instead of "As Ali walked along the darkened alley, Ali cannot help but to look at Ali's behind to make sure that Ali wasn't followed.

You can write "As Ali walked along the darkened alley, he cannot help but to look at his behind to make sure that he wasn't followed".

Easy peasy- we use them to replace proper name of a person

e.g.: I, You, We, They, He, She, It.

We use this when the subject and the object are the same.

e.g. I (subject) cut (verb) myself (object).

e.g.: myself, yourself/yourselves, ourselves, themselves, himself, herself, itself.

We use them to give further information on the nouns.

e.g.:This is the house (noun) that (relative pronoun) Jack built (the further information)

e.g.: who, whom, whose, which, that

We use this to point at things

e.g.: This, that, those, these, none, neither (and many more!)

These words can be an adverb, an adjective, or even a noun. It depends on the context.

e.g.: There, here