Types of Pronouns

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

• Interrogative: Pronouns that start a question. (who, whose, whom, which, what)

• Demonstrative: Pronouns that point out. (this, that, these, those) This is my pen. I want those for Christmas. Why isn’t this a pronoun in the following sentence? This pen is mine.

• Reflexive: Pronouns that add self or selves to a personal pronoun (myself, himself, ourselves, etc.) Never use hisself; instead use himself. Never use theirselves: instead use themselves.

• Reflexive pronouns are used as direct objects, indirect objects, object of prepositions, etc.

Examples of Reflexive Pronouns

• I hurt myself. (direct object)

• I made myself a sandwich. (indirect object)

• I did it for myself. (object of a preposition)

• Intensive Pronouns: intensive pronouns also add self/selves to the end of personal pronouns

• Although they look like other reflexive pronouns, they have no place in the sentence.

• Examples: I myself did the work.

• I did the work myself.

• Indefinite:Pronouns that have no definite number or gender. (some, few, many, others, everything, something, etc.)

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• Some of the candy was taken. .

Some candy was taken. (Some in this sentence is an adjective, not a pronoun)

• Relative: pronouns that start dependent clauses (clauses that don’t make sense by themselves).

• (who, whose, whom, which, that, and sometimes what)

• The book that I lost was turned into the office. The girl who won the prize could not be found. Neither phrase makes sense by itself.