This document defines and categorizes different types of pronouns in English. It discusses 9 types of pronouns: 1) personal pronouns which show person, 2) possessive pronouns which show possession, 3) reflexive and intensive pronouns which point back to the subject, 4) demonstrative pronouns which point out particular people/things, 5) indefinite pronouns which do not refer to anything specific, 6) distributive pronouns which refer to people/things one at a time, 7) interrogative pronouns which introduce questions, 8) relative pronouns which relate to a preceding noun, and 9) reciprocal pronouns which express mutual relationships. It

1. Parts of Speech
Pronouns
Sam An Teng
October 2013
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2. What is Pronoun?
• A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun.
For examples,
– Ratha is studying English. She wants to be a teacher.
– Ratha and her friends are hopeful. They are sitting in their
first class.

3. Kinds of Pronouns
• Pronouns may be classified as personal, intensive, reflexive,
demonstrative, relative, interrogative, indefinite, and
reciprocal.
[1] Personal Pronouns
• Personal pronouns show person; that is, first person, the
second person, or the third person.
• They are:
– Subjective pronouns: I, you, we, they, he, she, it
– Objective pronouns: me, you, us, them, him, her, it

4. Kinds of Pronouns
[2] Possessive Pronouns
• Possessive pronoun shows possession or ownership.
– Possessive pronouns: mine, yours, theirs, his, hers, its
• You may be confused with possessive adjectives below:
Possessive adjectives: my, your, their, his, her, its

5. Kinds of Pronouns
[3] Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns
• Intensive and reflexive pronouns have the same forms. They
are: myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself,
itself, themselves, and oneself.
• The intensive pronoun usually comes after the word it stands
for and emphasizes that word; as,
– The president himself told the reporters.
– They themselves admitted their mistake.
• The reflexive pronoun points the action back toward the
subject.
– She bought the dress for herself.
– She bought herself a new dress.

6. Kinds of Pronouns
[4] Demonstrative Pronouns
• Demonstrative pronouns are used to point out particular
persons, places, or things.
• They are: this, that , these, those
– This is my party.
– These are her pencils.
– That is Sophal’s shirt.
– Those are good apples.
– Those papers arc soiled.

7. Kinds of Pronouns
[5] Indefinite Pronouns
• Indefinite pronouns do not refer to any person or thing in
particular.
• They are: another, each, neither, somebody, anybody, either,
nobody, someone, anyone, everybody, no one, something,
anything, everyone, one, both, few, many, several, all, any,
some…
– Somebody took the key to the storeroom.
– One hardly knows what to do.
– Nobody has his or her ticket.

8. Kinds of Pronouns
[6] Distributive Pronouns
• Distributive pronouns refer to persons or things one at a time.
They are: each, either, and neither.
– Each of the men received a reward.
– Either of you can go.
– Neither of the accusations is true.

9. Kinds of Pronouns
[7] Interrogative Pronouns
• Interrogative pronouns introduce question sentences.
• They are who, whom, what, which, where, when, why …
– Who is she?
– Whom did you meet?
– What is your name?
– Which is yours?
– Where did you go yesterday?

10. Kinds of Pronouns
[8] Relative Pronouns
• Relative pronouns are words that refer or relate to some noun
going before, which is called its antecedents.
• They are: who, whom, that, which.
– She is the woman who interviewed me.
– She appointed the man whom I also know.
– It is a dog that won the prize last time.
– Tum Teav is a story which tells about a love tragedy.

11. Kinds of Pronouns
[9] Reciprocal Pronouns
• Reciprocal pronouns express a mutual relationship.
• They are: each other and one another.
– Peter and Mary kissed each other.
– The gangsters were fighting one another.

12. Kinds of Pronouns
[10] Impersonal pronouns
• Impersonal pronoun "it" doesn't refer to a definite reference
or antecedent. It does not refer to a particular person or
thing.
– It's alright.
– It seems hard to believe.
– It is going to be sunny tomorrow.

13. • The pronoun may function as: subject, object of a verb,
indirect object, object of a verbal, object of a preposition,
subjective complement, and so forth.
[1] Functioning as subject
– They are architects.
– Everything is not permanent.
[2] Functioning as direct object
– She likes him so much.
– The army defeated them and captured the town.
Functions of Pronouns

14. Functions of Pronouns
[3] Functioning as indirect object
– The Manager offered him a new position.
– She made herself a cake.
[4] Functioning as object of preposition
– It is not easy to deal with them.
– She was talking about herself.

15. Functions of Pronouns
[5] Functioning as subject complement
– The book is mine.
– The house is theirs.
[6] Functioning as appositive
– You all student should study hard.
– He himself misunderstood my message.

16. Related Topics:
• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Verbs
• Adjectives
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