Pronoun

A pronoun is used in place of noun. Pronouns are usually short words and are used to make sentences less repetitive.

Personal pronoun has the following characteristics

Persons

          •         First person (the speaker) (I, me, we, us)

          •         Second person (the person spoken to) (you)

          •         Third person (the ones spoken about) (he, him, she, her, it, they, them)

Genders

          •         Feminine – she, her

          •         Masculine – he, him

          •         Neuter – it, they, them

    Example:

1.   She is a nice girl.

2.   He likes ice-cream.

3.   It doesn't work

Numbers

          •         Singular – I, you, he, she, it, me, him, her

          •         Plural – we, you, they, us, them

    Example:

1.   I like to play cricket.

2.   You may get good marks in this exam.

Subject/Object

          •         Subject-I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they

          •         Object- me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them

    Examples:

         I like tea. (‘I’ is subject pronoun as the pronoun is the subject of the sentence.) 

         Ria helped me. (‘Me’ is object pronoun as it is affected in some way by the subject of the sentence)

Pronoun Table