Personal Pronouns Chart With Examples
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2Personal Pronouns
What are they? They are words that replace a noun like ‘they’ and ‘we’ and ‘you’ and ‘she’.
How do you tell which one to use?
It depends on four things:
Are you looking for a pronoun for a singular or plural noun?
Is it one person/thing or two people/things?
What case it is within the sentence? Subjective, Objective or Possessive?
Subject then
Verb then
Basic sentence structure is
object
Here’s an example
Jack
Eats
sandwiches.
Mostly, if the pronoun appears before the verb it is Subjective case.
Mostly, if the pronoun appears after the verb it is Objective case.
If the pronoun is to indicate ownership of a noun by someone it is Possessive case.
NB Can a noun be subjective and possessive at the same time? Yes but the possessive rule overrides
(beats) subjective or objective case.
Is the noun in first, second or third person?
First person is the person saying it. ‘I’ ‘me’ ‘mine’ ‘we’ ‘us’ ‘ours’
Second person is the person being spoken to. ‘you’ ‘yours’
Third person is the person being spoken about. ‘he’ ‘she’ ‘it’ ‘him’ ‘her’ ‘his’ ‘hers’ ‘its’ ‘they’ ‘them’ ‘theirs’
What gender is the pronoun?
Male, female and neutral only matters when the noun is third person and singular.
If third person singular AND possessive then we ask for the gender of the OWNER of the object.
Male (boy, man)
‘he’ ‘him’ ‘his’
Female (girl, woman)
‘she’ ‘her’ ‘hers’
Neutral
‘it’ ‘its’
Let’s put this into a table to display the correct pronoun for each situation.
SUBJECTIVE
SINGULAR
PLURAL
FIRST PERSON
I
we
SECOND PERSON
you
you
THIRD PERSON
he/she/it
they
OBJECTIVE
SINGULAR
PLURAL
FIRST PERSON
me
us
SECOND PERSON
you
you
THIRD PERSON
him/her/it
them
POSSESSIVE
SINGULAR
PLURAL
FIRST PERSON
mine
ours
SECOND PERSON
yours
yours
THIRD PERSON
his/hers/its
theirs
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