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English Grammar - Pronouns
A word used to take the place of one or more nouns is called a pronoun.
A pronoun that can replace a person, place, or idea is demonstrative: these, that, this, those
Examples:
We really like this house.
Do you want to buy those cats or these dogs?
An
indefinite pronoun is a pronoun referring to an identifiable but not specified person or thing. An indefinite pronoun conveys the idea of all, any, none, or some.
The most common indefinite pronouns are "all," "another," "any," "anybody," "anyone," "anything," "each," "everybody," "everyone," "everything," "few," "many," "nobody," "none," "one," "several," "some," "somebody," and "someone."
A pronoun that forms a question in the sentence is interrogative pronoun: whom, who, which, what, whose
Examples:
Who wrote this letter?
What are your problems?
Possessive pronouns are used to show ownership over something else: my, our, his, her, your, its, their
Examples:
It's my bag.
Your car is stolen?
A pronoun that refers to a subject and directs the verb action back onto the subject is reflexive: myself, itself, yourself, ourselves, themselves, himself, herself.
Example: I've cut myself.
A pronoun is personal if it refers to the person speaking: I, you, he, she, we, they etc...
Example: Do you want to go with me?
Other links on pronouns:
http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/pronouns.html