Pronouns, its uses and its types

Pronoun is a word that replaces the name of a person or Objects. Pronouns are an important part of sentence formation and asked in competitive examinations in cloze test, rearrange the sentences.

Personal Pronouns:

I, He, She, we, they, have the forms me, him, her, us, them

E.g.

You and I must work together
He invited my sister and me to the dinner
Ankit is 2 year older than me
You are wiser than her
You hate her as much as I

Use Of IT

For things without life
e.g. I have a book. It has pictures in it
For Animals, as
e.g. The horse fell and broke its leg
As a provisional subject before the verb ‘to be’ when the real subject follows
Eg. It is our duty to respect our elders
e.g. It is better to die than to beg
To give emphasis to Noun or Pronoun following
E.g. It was I who first protested
In speaking of time or weather
E.g. It is raining.

Reflexive and Emphasizing Pronouns

These are: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves

Use of Reflexive Pronouns

I hurt Myself
You will hurt yourselves
They hurt Themselves

Use of Emphasizing Pronouns

The king himself gave her the medal
Sita herself opened the door
We will see to it ourselves.

Relative Pronouns

These are: Who, whose, whom, which, that, which

‘Who’ is used for person’s only
E.g. The man who is honest succeeds in Life
‘Which’ is used for Animals and for things without life
E.g. The horse which Ali brought last year is white
‘That’ is used for persons, animals and things
E.g. Happy is the man that avoids bad company
‘What’ is used for things only, mostly hidden
E.g. What is one man’s meat is another man’s poison