Description

Pronouns are words that people might use instead of using a noun when referring to someone or something. Some examples are “I,” “you,” “he,” “it,” “this,” “that,” “himself,” “someone,” and others. The personal pronoun is the most common type of pronoun.

Personal Pronouns

Personal pronouns refer to people or things and show whether the speaker is referring to himself, the person he is speaking to, or someone or something else. The following are kinds of information that personal pronouns may provide. Other types of pronouns may give some of this information, as well.

Person

• First Person — The speaker and possibly others (I, me, we, us)

• Exclusive and Inclusive “We”

• Second Person — The person or people that the speaker is talking to and possibly others (you)

• Forms of You

• Third Person — Someone or something other than the speaker and those he is talking to (he, she, it, they)

Number

• Singular — one (I, you, he, she, it)
• Plural — more than one (we, you, they)

• Singular Pronouns that Refer to Groups

• Dual — two (Some languages have pronouns specifically for two people or two things.)

Gender

• Masculine — he
• Feminine — she
• Neuter — it

Relationship to other words in the sentence