What are the pronouns?
The pronouns we use in everyday life are gender-specific, and these terms are used in many different ways. I am a girl, and I am a teacher. I am not a girl, and I am not a teacher. Many more articles on the web are examples and definitions of different pronouns in different languages and societies. However, even still, there is a lot we don’t know.
PRONOUN Definition
PRONOUN is the parts of speech word which is used in place of a noun or instead of a noun
For example He, they
pronoun and its kinds
Personal pronoun (what are the pronouns)
The personal pronoun is associated with the particular person like first person, second person, and 3rd person
For example
First-person
I we mine us ours
Second person
Yours you
Third-person
They he her she it them their
Impersonal pronoun(what are the pronouns):
The pronoun which defines or stands for a thing or verb or any non-living thing but not for a person is called impersonal pronoun
For example
Speaking about whether or period
It is ok
It is summer
It is eight o’clock
For without life things
Here is your watch. Take it away
The pronoun It is used above stands for no noun whatever
It is all example of the impersonal pronoun
Reflexive pronoun (what are the pronouns) :
When the subject does the action reflects back upon the subject, then the subject is called Reflexive pronoun
For example
We hurt ourselves; he hurt himself, I hurt myself
Emphatic pronoun (what are the pronouns) :
The type of personal pronouns that are used for the sake of emphasis is called emphatic pronoun
For example
She herself says so, I will do it myself, we saw the president himself
Here words herself myself himself are used are emphatic pronouns
Demonstrative pronoun (what are the pronouns) :
The pronoun that is used to point out the object to which they refer and are therefore called demonstrative pronouns
For example
This is the present from my aunty
Sukkur mangoes are better than those of Karachi
That is seaport
This these are demonstrative
Indefinite pronoun (pronoun and its kinds):
The pronouns which refer to persons or things in a general way but do not refer to any person or thing in particular are called indefinite pronoun
For example
One hardly knows what to do
Do good to others
Many of them were Sikhs
Few escaped from death
Distributive pronoun (what are the pronouns):
The pronoun which refers to o persons or things one at a time that is the reason they are always single and are followed by a verb in the singular
For example
Each every either neither
The relative pronoun (what are the pronouns) :
The pronoun which refers or relates to some noun going before is called relative pronoun
For example
Who whose whom/ who