Transcript Pronouns - Mrs. Kelly's website

A pronoun is a word that takes the place
of one or more nouns or pronouns.
 The word that the pronoun refers to is
called the antecedent.
 There are seven types of pronouns:

› personal
› demonstrative
› relative
› indefinite
interrogative
reflexive/intensive
possessive

Personal pronouns refer to the one
speaking (first person), the one spoken to
(second person), and the one spoken
about (third person).

First person personal pronouns
› I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours

Second person personal pronouns
› you, your, yours

Third person personal pronouns
› he, him, his, she, her hers, it, its, they, them,
their, theirs
5. A reflexive pronoun refers to the subject
of a sentence and functions as a
complement or as an object of a
preposition.
6. An intensive pronoun emphasizes its
antecedent and serves no grammatical
purpose.

First person reflexive pronouns
› myself, ourselves

Second person reflexive pronouns
› yourself, yourselves

Third person reflexive pronouns
› himself, herself, itself themselves
Elena treated herself to a snack.
The dog gave itself a bath.
Albert himself organized the fundraiser.
8. An interrogative pronoun introduces a
question.
Who
Whom Which
What
Whose
9. A relative pronoun introduces a
subordinate clause.
that
which
whose
who
whom
10. An indefinite pronoun refers to one or
more
all
another
any
anybody
anyone
anything
both
each
either
everyone
everything
few
many
more
most
much
neither
nobody
none
no one
nothing
one
other
several
some
somebody
something
such
11. A possessive pronoun shows ownership.
Examples: your, my, our, theirs, etc.
12. A demonstrative pronoun points out a
specific person, place thing or idea. It
takes the place of what it points out.
Examples this that these those