Pronouns

Nouns can be replaced by pronouns.

It can be someone, something, any animals, etc...

Nouns refer to persons, animals, places, things, ideas, or events, etc. Nouns encompass most of the words of a language.

Noun can be a/an - 

Person – a name for a person: - Max, Julie, Catherine, Michel, Bob, etc. Animal – a name for an animal: - dog, cat, cow, kangaroo, etc.

Place – a name for a place: - London, Australia, Canada, Mumbai, etc. Thing – a name for a thing: - ball, chair, door, house, computer, etc.

Idea – A name for an idea: - devotion, superstition, happiness, excitement, etc.

Nouns can be replaced by pronouns.

It can be someone, something, any animals, etc...

1. Personal Pronouns

2. Possessive Pronouns

3. Relative Pronouns

4. Reflexive Pronouns

5. Intensive Pronouns

6. Indefinite Pronouns

7. Demonstrative Pronouns

8. Interrogative Pronouns

1. Personal Pronouns: take the place of people or things

eg: I, you, he, she, we, it, they, me

2. Possessive Pronouns: personal pronouns that indicates the possession of something/owner of something

eg: my, your, his, her, (mine, yours, theirs- stand alone and not followed by a noun)

3. Relative Pronouns: use to connect a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun [to add more information]

eg: who, whom, which, that

4. Reflexive Pronouns: when a subject perform an action on itself, the sentence use reflexive pronouns after the verb

eg: myself, himself, herself, themselves

5. Intensive Pronouns: similar to reflexive pronouns but have different function in a sentence (only to add emphasis)

eg: yourself, myself [I told Ain that you yourself will bake the cake]

6. Indefinite Pronouns: refer to people or things but they don't have a specific person or thing as a reference.

eg: some, anyone, everything

7. Demonstrative Pronouns: point out a person or thing

eg: this, that, these, those

8. Interrogative Pronouns: pronouns to ask questions

eg: who, whom, whose, what, which

They are used for names of person, animal and things.

Example; I, you, he, she, we, they, me, you, us, them etc.

They are used for non living things, used when we don't want to specify the gender of an animal, when referring to a child but we don't want to specify the gender.

For example; The child is sick - It is sick.