This document discusses the different types of pronouns in English. It defines pronouns as words used in place of nouns that avoid repetition. There are 7 main types of pronouns: personal pronouns like I, you; reflexive pronouns like myself; demonstrative pronouns like this, that; indefinite pronouns like some, many; distributive pronouns like each; interrogative pronouns like what, who; and relative pronouns like who, which. Each pronoun type is defined and examples are provided to illustrate their usage and differences between related terms like pronouns and adjectives.

1. Chapter
Pronouns: Kinds
of Pronouns

2. Introduction
 Meaning of Pronoun:
• A word that is used in the place of a noun.
• It is used to avoid the monotony of repetition.
• It has the same position as a noun in a sentence.
• Like a Noun, a Pronoun is also an object of a
sentence.
• Like Noun, Pronoun should also agree with verb
in a sentence.
Examples of Pronoun are:

3. Kinds of Pronouns
1. Personal Pronoun - I, we. You, he, she, it,
they, me, us, you, his,
her, it, them
2. Reflexive Pronoun Myself, yourself,
and himself, herself, itself,
Emphatic Pronoun yourselves, ourselves,
themselves
3. Demonstrative Pronoun - This, that, these,
those, such
4. Indefinite Pronoun - Some, one, none, few,
all, many, others

4. 5. Distributive Pronoun - Each, either, neither
6. Interrogative Pronoun - What, who, which,
whose, whom
7. Relative Pronoun - Who, whose, whom,
that, which

6. 1. Personal Pronoun
They are of three kinds and refer to
persons.
1. First Person - refers to the person or
persons speaking.
2. Second Person - refers to the person
or persons listening.
3. Third Person - refers to the person or
persons spoken about.

7. Personal Pronoun
Subjective Objective Possessive

8. mine
yours
his
hers
its
our
yours
theirs
Possessive Pronoun & Possessive Adjective
• This book is mine. (Possess. Pronoun)
• This is my book. (Possess. Adjective)
• Is this yours? (Possess. Pronoun)
• Is this your umbrella? (Possess. Adjective)
my
your
his
her
its
our
your
their

9. 2. Reflexive Pronoun
They are the receivers of the action and
behave like objects of the verb but they
refer to the same person as subject.

10. Emphatic Pronoun
They are same as reflexive pronoun
and are used for emphasis. They are
used with a Noun or Pronoun for the
sake of emphasis.
Examples-
 You will hurt yourself. Reflexive
 I blame myself for it. Pronoun
 The boys hid themselves.
 He himself told me. Emphatic
 You yourself are to blame for this . Pronoun
 The Queen herself came to see the clown.

11. 3. Demonstrative Pronoun
They are used to point out the object or objects
for which they are used.
Examples are- This, these, that, those, such.

12. Difference between Demonstrative
Pronoun and Demonstrative Adjective
 This is my pencil. (Dem. Pronoun)
 This pencil is mine. (Dem. Adjective)
 That is my book. (Dem. Pronoun)
 That book is mine. (Dem. Adjective)
 These are your pens. (Dem. Pronoun)
 These pens are yours.(Dem. Adjective)
 Those are her dogs. (Dem. Pronoun)
 Those dogs are hers. (Dem. Adjective)

13. 4. Indefinite Pronouns
They refer to persons or things in general
way. They do not refer to any particular
person or thing.
Examples: Some, all, many, few, one,
none, others etc.
Somebody is All the children Both are
driving the car. are playing. baking a cake.

14. Some more examples of Indefinite
Pronoun

15. 5. Distributive Pronouns
They refer to a number of persons or
things, one at time.
Examples- Each, neither, either etc
Either of these books will do.
Few students will be awarded for
their achievements.

16. 6. Interrogative Pronouns
They are used for asking questions.
Examples- What , who, which, whose,
whom etc.

17. Interrogative Pronouns
What is your phone number?
Who bought this car?
Whom did you call?
Why are you laughing?

18. Difference between Interrogative
Pronoun and Interrogative Adjective
 Which way shall we take? (Int. Adj.)
 Which is your pen? (Int. Pronoun)
 What books has he selected? (Int. Adj.)
 What shall we do now? (Int. Pronoun)
 Which dress would look good on me? (Int. Adj.)
 What should I wear? (Int. Pronoun)
 What food would you like to eat? (Int. Adj.)
 What do you want to eat? (Int. Pronoun)

19. 7. Relative Pronouns
 The pronouns who, whom, whose, which and
that which joins two sentences and refer back
to its nouns going before them, are called
Relative Pronouns.
 The Noun to which a Relative Pronoun refers or
relates is called Antecedent.

21. Examples-
1. This is the man. He stole my purse.
This is the man who stole my purse.
2. This is the boy. His nature is good.
This is the boy whose nature is good.
3. This is the boy. The teacher praised
him.
This is the boy whom the teacher
praised.
The antecedent in sentence 1 is
‘man’ and in sentences 2 and 3 is
‘boy’.

22. 4. This is the house. Jack built it.
This is the house that Jack built.
5. This is the horse. It won the race.
This is the horse which won the race.
The antecedent in sentence 4 is ‘house’
and in sentence 5 is ‘horse’.
• If relative pronoun is a subject we use who.
Example-
Anyone who does the good work will be
rewarded.
•If relative pronoun is an object we use whom.
Example-
These are the boys whom others do not like.

23. Presented by:
Ms. Swati Hasija