Look! It's a List of Pronouns!

Before you look at the list of pronouns, let's have a quick refresher on the definition of a pronoun.

Quick Refresher:

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of one or more nouns.

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These tables show a list of pronouns for the following types of pronouns:

personal, relative, demonstrative, indefinite, reflexive, intensive, interrogative, possessive, subject and object

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List of Pronouns

Personal Pronouns These take the place of common and proper nouns.	Singular	Plural
First Person: The person or people speaking or writing	I me	we us
Second Person: The person or people being spoken or written to	you	you
Third Person: The person, people, or things being spoken or written about	she, her he, him it	they them

Relative Pronouns These relate subordinate adjective clauses to the rest of the sentence.

that, which, who, whom, whose, whichever, whoever, whomever

Demonstrative Pronouns These represent a thing or things.	Singular	Plural
Refers to things that are nearby	this	these
Refers to things that are far away	that	those

	Indefinite Pronouns These refer to something that is unspecified.
Singular	anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one, somebody, someone, something
Plural	both, few, many, several
Singular or Plural	all, any, most, none, some

Reflexive Pronouns These end in self or selves.	Singular	Plural
First Person: The person or people speaking or writing	myself	ourselves
Second Person: The person or people being spoken or written to	yourself	yourselves
Third Person: The person, people, or things being spoken or written about	himself, herself, itself	themselves

Interrogative Pronouns These are used to ask questions.

what, who, which, whom, whose

Possessive Pronouns These are used to show ownership.	Singular	Plural
Used Before Nouns These actually function as adjectives. Crazy!	my your his, her, its	our your their
Used Alone	mine yours his, hers	ours yours theirs

Subject and Object Pronouns These are used as either the subject or the object in a sentence.	Singular	Plural
Subjects tell us whom or what the sentence is about.	I you she, he, it	we you they
Objects: direct objects, indirect objects, objects of prepositions	me you her, him, it	us you them

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Sentence Diagramming
& Pronouns

Sentence diagramming is a visual way to show how the words in a sentence are related to each other.

Pronouns can do many things in a sentence, and the way they are diagrammed depends on the way that they are acting in each sentence.

Here are some of the jobs that pronouns can do: subject, direct object, indirect object, object of the preposition, and predicate noun.

You can learn more about diagramming by going to the grammar exercise page, which will take you step-by-step through diagramming.

I hope this has helped you learn a bit more about pronouns!

See the What Is a Pronoun Page for much more information on pronouns!

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