Pronouns
What is a pronoun? Well, pronouns are words to take the place of a noun phrase to avoid repetition in clauses or sentences. But they have more than that as well.
Antecedent: The noun phrase that the pronoun stands for. Example: The youngest daughter ate her breakfast. Her is the pronoun The youngest daughter is the antecedent | A personal pronoun shows person, number, and gender. Person referring to first, second, or third person pronouns. Gender of course by masculine and feminine. And number is singular or plural. Personal Pronouns are also broken down into different cases. They can be the subject case, object case or possessive cases. |
Reflexive pronouns: They end in either -self or -selves. The point of a reflexive pronoun is to point out that the subject and the object are the same in the sentence. Example: Jane loves herself. The subject is Jane, and the object is Jane.
Reciprocal Pronouns: Work similar to reflexive pronouns but the show plural subjects doing one action to each other. So the action is distributed to multiple subjects. Example: The team members protect each other. vs: They team members protect themselves. You can see in the first sentence they are working as a team and in the next they are working as individuals.
Demonstrative Pronouns: This, that, these, those. They modify the head noun based off location to the speaker or the participants of the conversation. Example: Shall I order these?
Relative Pronouns: Who, Whom, Whose, Which. The first three are used with human and "which" is used for non-human. "That" is universal between both. Used in construction with relative clauses. Example: I know the woman who owns this place. Relative pronouns show why it's relative that you know the woman.
Interrogative Pronouns: Who, Whom, Whose, What. They always occur at the beginning of a sentence. Always creates a question.
Universal Pronouns: Each, all, Everybody, Everyone, Everything. All of them except "all" is used as a singular pronoun, and they represent all-inclusive noun phrases.
Indefinite Pronouns: Several, Many, Enough, Few, Less and "one" when used such as "one ought to". Refer to indefinite entities or quantities.
