Facts you Never Knew About Pronouns

Here you are going to learn a few rules about pronouns where and how to pronounce correctly in English language whether for writing or speaking.

Please read out the below sentences and emphasize how it looks.

Rahul is my best friend. Rahul sits with me. Rahul always comes on time. Rahul helps me complete my H.W.

The above sentences don’t sound good. You probably have a question in your mind why Rahul is coming over and over again. You are right, this is incorrect according to Grammar. The grammatically correct sentences are completely based on certain rules.

What is the Pronoun definition?

A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun or a word which comes in the place of a noun.

A basic example of pronoun.

Rahul is my best friend. He sits with me. He always comes on time. He helps me complete my H.W.

(Written correctly reason: He is used for masculine gender)

You may have an idea about the essentiality of pronouns after reading grammatically correct sentences.

How many types of pronouns are there in English?

S no.	Name
1	Personal Pronoun
2	Demonstrative Pronoun
3	Reciprocal Pronoun
4	Interrogative Pronoun
5	Reflexive Pronoun
6	Indefinite Pronoun
7	Emphatic Pronoun
8	Relative Pronoun
9	Possessive Pronoun
10	Distributive Pronoun

Personal Pronoun

Person	Subjective case	Gender
First person	I	Common
	We	Common
Second Person	You	Common
Third Person	They	Common
	She	Feminine
	He	Masculine
	It	Neuter

The above tables represent the personal pronoun. Let’s know it in more details with pronoun examples.

First person always starts a conversation hence I & We are the first persons.

‘I’ is used for singular and ‘We’ for plural including I.

    è This is Sonu. I am a software engineer.

    è Raju and I work with each other because we are in the same company. (we including I)

Second person ‘You’ participates in the conversation by listening to it and adding additional points to it.

‘You’ is used for both Singular and Plural.

    è You are an adorable teacher. (Singular)

    è You are students and it is your duty to follow the rules. (Plural)

Third person participates in the conversation indirectly because the first and the second person talk about the third person (They, She, He, and It).

I am telling someone (You) about these persons.

    è They are my classmates.

    è She is my mother who is in red dress

    è He is my brother with an umbrella in his hand.

    è It is my laptop.

Reciprocal Pronoun

This pronoun is used to tell the relation between two or more than two things. It shows the mutuality.

Pronoun	Used for
Each other	2 persons/things
One another	More than 2

Each Other

    è Romeo and Juliet loved each other. (both does the same action)

    è My and I chat with each other regularly at night.

One Another

    è All the players cooperate with one another to win the trophy.

    è She her daughter and husband have dinner with one another at 8 p.m. 

Interrogative pronoun

{W.h.f word + verb + sub+ ?} 

This pronoun is used to make questions with the help of using the below words.

Interrogative word	Cause
What	Non-living Object
When	Time
Why	Reason
Who	Subject
Whose	Possession
Whom	Living Object
Which	Selection
Where	Place
How	Manner

    è ‘What’ is used to get the object from a sentence.

    ·       What did you prepare for this New Year?

    ·       What do you like to study? 

    è ‘When’ is used to get the time.

    ·       When is your birthday?

    ·       When do you get up at morning?

    è ‘Why’ is used to get the reason.

    ·       Why are late today?

    ·       Why have not submitted your project yet?

    è ‘Who’ is used to get the subject.

    ·       Who helped you in exams?

    ·       Who will marry you?

    è ‘Whose’ is used to get the ownership.

    ·       Whose bike did you borrow to have a ride?

    ·       Whose idea was it to bunk the class?

    è ‘Whom’ is used to get living object.

    ·       Whom did you hit while driving?

    ·       With whom do you want to go for a long drive?

    è ‘Which’ is used to get selection.

    ·       Which is your favorite color?

    ·       Which book do you think is the better?

    è ‘Where’ is used to get the place.

    ·       Where did you use to place as a kid?

    ·       Where would you like to go?

    è ‘How’ is used to get the manner.

    ·       How did you learn English?

    ·       How do you write so meaningfully?

Demonstrative Pronoun

(This & That, These & Those) 

        ·       Make sure you use verb just after these demonstrative words else it will be a wrong use.

This

This worked for me as a miracle.

This is my way to deal with the different people.

That

That is a powerful technique to get rid of mental stress.

That is the school where I studied.

These

These are important documents.

These used to be colorful walls earlier.

Those

Those are footballers.

Those laid the foundation of a green park.

Reflexive Pronoun

Subjective case	Reflexive Pronoun
I	Myself
We	Ourselves
You	Yourself/Yourselves
They	Themselves
She	Herself
He	Himself
It	Itself

The reflexive pronouns are used to emphasize the subject. These usually comes at the last and makes a strong sense with the subject.

Myself

I can easily do the work of five persons myself.

I will prove myself to the world.

Ourselves

We prepared for the annual function’s ceremony ourselves.

We never thought it even in our dreams we would build a website ourselves.

Yourself / Yourselves

You invented a flying car in your dream yourself.

You will have to plant trees to make this Earth greener yourselves together.

Themselves

Romu, Stephen and his friends enjoyed themselves at carnival.

Herself

Neha likes to clean the home herself.

Himself

Hunny makes the important decisions himself.

Itself

When the water is boiled, it evaporates itself.