Personal Pronouns
Personal Pronouns are a subset of pronouns which stand in for people, places, things and ideas.
This is a full table of personal pronouns:
| Subject | Object | Reflexive | Possessive | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | I | me | myself | mine |
| singular | you | you | yourself | yours |
| singular masculine | he | him | himself | his |
| singular feminine | she | her | herself | hers |
| singular neutral | it | it | itself | its |
| singular ngs* | they | them | themself | their |
| singular ngs* | one | one | oneself | one's |
| plural | we | us | ourselves | ours |
| plural | you | you | yourselves | yours |
| plural | they | them | themselves | theirs |
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Personal Pronouns as Subjects
We can replace the subject of a sentence with a personal pronoun:
Personal Pronouns as Objects
We can replace the object of a sentence with a personal pronoun:
Personal Pronouns as Reflexives
We can replace the reflexive noun of a sentence with a personal pronoun:
Personal Pronouns as Possessives
We can replace the possessive determiner and its noun with a personal pronoun:
Specific Personal Pronouns
One
We can use one as a pronoun to replace anybody and we use it to talk about people in general but it is not used very much these days and is very formal:
Note: The possessive takes an apostrophe.
You
We use the pronoun you in two ways:
- we can use you to refer to the person we are talking to:
We can also use you to talk about people in general:
When we are talking about people in general, we can also use one instead of you. This is more formal and less common in everyday speech:
