Personal and Intensive Pronouns

A word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this ).

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Personal pronouns are the words you may like others to use for you in place of your proper name.

Personal Pronouns

• I, Me

• You

• He

• She

• They

• We, Us

• It​

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A pronoun indicating possession, for example mine, yours, hers, theirs.

• My

• Your

• His

• Her

• Their

• Our

• Its​

Personal and Possessive Pronouns

Personal Possessive

• I, Me My

• You Your

• He His

• She Her

• They Their

• We, Us Our

• It​ Its

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• Use a subject pronoun in the subject of a sentence.

• Use an object pronoun after a verb or after a word such as for or to.

​They played baseball. (They is the subject)

Jake coached them. (Them is the object of the sentence)

• I never liked snakes.

• We want to leave the island.

• She found two in the house.

• They are just creepy.

• Snakes have always scared me.

• Snakes are too gross for us.

• One snake almost bit her.

• My sister and I hate them.

• The demonstrative pronouns are this, that, these, and those.

• Ex. This is my mother’s ring.

• Ex. That looks like the car I used to drive.

• Ex. These are nice shoes, but they’re uncomfortable.

• Ex. Those look riper than the apples on my tree.

Use the given verbs to help you.