Basic English Grammar: Pronoun – 1

I) Personal Pronouns:

> Subjective Pronouns – I, we, you, he, she, it, they.

> Objective Pronouns – me, us, you, him, her, it, them.

> Possessive Pronouns – mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, theirs, one’s.

Possessive Determiners – my, your, his, her, its, our, their, one’s.

II) Reflexive Pronouns:

Reflexive pronouns end in –self or –selves. They refer back to the subject forms of personal pronouns.

> Reflexive pronouns – myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, oneself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.

e.g: We didn’t decorate it ourselves. Someone else did it for us.

Below Reflexive pronoun is used when the subject and the object of the verb refer to the same person or thing.

e.g: She made herself a cup of tea and sat down in front of the television.

> Reflexive pronouns for emphasis or Intensive pronoun:

We don’t use reflexive pronouns on their own as the subject of a clause, but we can use them with a noun or pronoun to emphasis the subject.

e.g: The director of the company wrote to us himself to apologise for the dreadful service.

For more updates in different types of Pronoun, Read the next article.