Pronouns

What is a pronoun? It's a word used to replace nouns. Why do we have to replace nouns? Just imagine if you were to talk to someone about your friend Eddy. You have a lot to say about Eddy...that Eddy is nice, Eddy is smart, Eddy is like this and like that. Wouldn't it be so tiring and redundant to say his name over and over? That's why we need pronouns. So, instead of always referring to someone or something by his/her or its name, we can use he, she, it, and other pronouns. There are 7 types of pronouns: personal, impersonal, definite, indefinite, relative, reciprocal and interrogative. Let's discuss them one by one starting with Personal Pronouns.

Personal Pronouns -is the type of pronoun we're probably most familiar with because they refer to the speaker, the one addressed and anyone or anything for that matter. Personal pronouns have person, number, gender and case, just like nouns.

Person
1st person-I, we (used when the subject is the speaker)
2nd person-you (when the subject is the one talked to)
3rd person-he, she, it, they (when the subject is spoken of)

Number
Singular-I, you, he, she, it
Plural-we, you, they

Gender
Masculine-he
Feminine-she
Common-I, we, you, they
Neuter-it

Case
Nominative-I, you, she, he, it, we, they
Possessive-my, mine, your, yours, his, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs
Objective-me, you, him, her, it, us, them

The other types of pronouns will be in the next post.