Pronouns

Pronouns 101

• Personal pronouns: one of the most common types. The chart below will help your students understand when and why they use different personal pronouns, located in the far-right column.



Person	Number	Case
		Subject	Object
First	Singular	I	me
	Plural	we	us
Second	Singular	you
	Plural
Third	Singular	he	him
		she	her
		it
	Plural	they	them



• Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns: used for when someone or something commits an action upon itself. For example: “The boy hit himself.”
• Possessive pronouns: reveal whether something is owned or not. They can occur both independently (mine, yours, hers, ours, yours, theirs), and dependent on nouns (my, your, her, our, your, their). Interestingly, both ‘his’ and ‘its’ can be both independent and dependent.
• Demonstrative pronouns: ‘this, that,’ and their plural forms ‘these, those.’ They point out position, and may or may not be anaphoric.
• Indefinite pronouns refer to people or things that are not defined. They are the biggest group of pronouns, and distributive, negative, and impersonal pronouns.
• Relative pronouns: refer back to things already mentioned, and include: who, whom, whose, what, which and that.
Set your students up with worksheets and games above to give them ample practice and develop their understanding of the many different types of pronouns.