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Types of Pronouns

There are nine types of pronouns. These are:

Personal Pronouns Reflexive Pronouns Emphatic Pronouns

Demonstrative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns

Distributive Pronouns Reciprocal Pronouns Relative Pronouns

G Personal Pronouns are those pronouns that are used for persons and things, such as
I we you he she it they, , , , , , .

Pronouns of the first person refer to the person or person speaking. These includes I,
we, me, us, mine, ours.

Pronouns of the second person refer to the person or persons spoken to and include
you and yours.

Pronouns of the third person refer to the person or thing spoken of. These includes
he, she, him, her, hers, they, them, theirs, it.

G Reflexive Pronouns are used when the subject and the object in a sentence are

same. They are formed by adding self or selves to the personal pronouns.
Read the following examples:

1. They laughed at themselves .

2. She finished her homework herself .

The various forms of Reflective Pronouns are:

Person Singular Plural

First myself ourselves
Second yourself yourselves

Third himself themselves

herself

itself

G Emphatic Pronouns are used along with nouns or pronouns for the sake of emphasis.
Read the following examples:

1. The queen herself visited the school.

2. We ourselves went to see the concert.

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