Pronouns

1. Concepts

Pronouns also known as a pronoun - a word used to represent a noun that refers to a person, thing, thing or event mentioned in the previous sentence or sentences to avoid unnecessary repetition of words.

Purpose :  

• Replaces nouns or noun phrases

Avoid repeating the same word multiple times in sentences

For example:

• My father is a teacher.
• My father is tall
• My father has a black hair

➢  When describing our father, if we use the word "My father" over and over again, it will make the sentence quite boring and create a feeling of fatigue for the reader, right?

2. Classification

3. Function

✅ Summary:

• Personal pronouns can stand in the following positions and play the following roles in a sentence: subject, object, after prepositions.

• Each personal pronoun has two forms: subject form and object form.

➢  As we learned above, a personal pronoun is a word used to represent a noun or a noun phrase.
Therefore, personal pronouns can stand in the positions that nouns or noun phrases can stand in the sentence, specifically:

• Subject
• object
• Comes after a preposition (in a prepositional phrase)

➢  But personal pronouns have one difference compared to nouns, that is, personal pronouns have 2 different forms, depending on their position in the sentence, while nouns have only 1 form.

Noun examples:

• Subject position: The student is good at math. = This student is good at math.
• Object position: I like the student. = I like this student.
• Comes after prepositions: I went to the park with the student. = I went to the park with this student.

Examples of personal pronouns:

• Subject position: He is good at math.
• Object position: I like him.
• Comes after prepositions: I went to the park with him.

The student is good at math. I like him. I went to the park with him.

➢ Thus, personal pronouns have two forms: one form is used when the pronoun is in the subject position, the other form is used when the pronoun is in the object position or comes after the preposition.

Below is a table summarizing and comparing two forms of personal pronouns:

Subject	Object & After Preposition
I	me
you	you
he	him
she	her
it	it
we	us
you	you
they	them

4. Other types of pronouns related to personal pronouns

Personal pronouns refer to the subject	Object pronouns	reflexive pronouns	Possessive pronoun	Positive adjectives
I	me	myself	mine	my
you	you	yourself​	yours	your
he	him	himself​	his​	his
she	her​	herself	hers	her
it	it	itself	(Not available)	its​
we	us	ourselves	ours	our
you	you	yourselves​	yours	your
they​	them	themselves	theirs​	their​