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Parts of Speech - Types of Pronouns

One should differentiate which is subjective pronoun and which is objective pronoun based on the usage of the pronouns. Pronouns are of five types. 1. Possessive pronouns 2. Demonstrative pronouns 3. Distributive pronouns 4. Reciprocal pronouns 5. Indefinite pronouns 1. POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS: The possessive pronoun can be indicated by a sign (‘) and a letter ‘s’ to a noun. The examples are given below: Examples: Singular Nouns can be expressed like this, David’s car (his car) Lakshmi’s bed (her bed) The Car’s light (its light) Pleural Nouns can be expressed like this, The children’s toys (their toys) Daniel’ bike (his bike) Boys’ hostel (their hostel) Girls’ bus (their bus) See the two sentences below. This is her watch. This watch is hers. The second one the effective one. 2. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS: This type of pronoun is used to point at a certain object like we use our index finger to point at something. We may use demonstrative pronouns e

Parts of Speech - Pronoun 2

In this lesson we will learn more about PRONOUN and its aspects. Every sentence in English contains three important parts i.e. SUBJECT-VERB-OBJECT. For example consider this sentence, The Sun Rises in the East. In this The Sun is Subject Rises is Verb In the East is Object SUBJECT and OBJECT parts always contain a noun. In this part we can use a noun or a pronoun called SUBJECTIVE PRONOUN, as well as we can use a noun or a pronoun used in the object part called OBJECTIVE PRONOUN. In a sentence, there is also another type of pronoun called POSSESSIVE pronoun, this pronoun represents anything a person or a thing or a place possesses. Now we will see all the types of pronoun now. First Person: I, WE-subjective pronouns ME, US-objective pronouns MY, MINE, OUR, OURS-possessive pronouns Second Person: YOU-subjective pronoun YOU-objective pronoun YOUR, YOURS-possessive pronoun Third Person: HE, SHE, IT, THEY-subjective pronouns HIM, HER