Pronouns

Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns refer to the speaker (I, me, we, us, my, mine, our, ours); the person spoken to (you, your, yours); and the person spoken about (he, she, it, they, him, her, them, his, hers, its, their, theirs).

Relative pronouns

Relative pronouns are used to introduce dependent clauses (who, whom, whose, which, that).

Reflexive or Intensive?

Take the pronoun out of the sentence. If the sentence remains the same, the pronoun is intensive.

Singular/plural

The indefinite pronouns (some, any, none, all, most) may be referred to by singular or plural pronouns, depending on the sense of the sentence.

Plural

Use plural pronouns to refer to the plural indefinite pronouns (both, few, several, many).

Singular

Use singular pronouns to refer to the singular indefinite pronouns (each, either, neither, one, everyone, everybody, no one, nobody, anyone, anybody, someone, somebody). (Each, either, neither and any pronoun ending in one, body, or thing is singular

Antecedent

An antecedent is the word for which a pronoun stands.

Intensive pronoun

An intensive pronoun emphasizes its antecedent and has no grammatical function in the sentence.

Indefinite pronouns

Indefinite pronouns do not definitely point out persons or things and do not usually have antecedents (SINGULAR: each, either,neither, one, everyone, everybody, no one, nobody, anyone, anybody, someone, somebody; PLURAL: both, few, several, many; SINGULAR or PLURAL: some, any, none, all, most).

Interrogative pronouns

Interrogative pronouns are used to ask a question (who, whom, whose, which, what).

Pronoun

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.

Number

A pronoun must agree with its antecedent in number.

Reflexive pronoun

A reflexive pronoun follows the verb, refers to the subject of a sentence, and functions as a complement or as an object of a preposition.

Compound pronouns

Compound pronouns are pronouns combined with -self or -selves (myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, oneself, themselves).

Demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns point out persons or things and do not usually have antecedents.