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Personal Pronouns For Intermediate learners

This lesson explains Personal Pronouns with straightforward explanations and useful examples to reinforce understanding.

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"Personal Pronouns" in the English Grammar

What Are Personal Pronouns?

Personal pronouns are a type of pronoun that refers to specific individuals or things and can replace nouns in a sentence. Personal pronouns have three distinguishing features:

1.

person (first, second, third)

2.

number (singular, plural)

3.

gender (feminine, masculine, neutral)

Person

We have three grammatical persons:

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1.

first-person → I, me, we

2.

second-person → you, yourselves

3.

third-person → he, her, himself, they, them

Number

In English, pronouns are typically divided into two groups:

1.

singular (one person) → I, me, myself

2.

plural (more than one person) → we, us, them, ourselves

Gender

English personal pronouns have three categories based on gender:

1.

Masculine (men/boys) → he, him, himself

2.

Feminine (women/girls) → she, her, herself

3.

Neutral (things/animals) → we, it, they

English Personal Pronouns

The basic personal pronouns of modern English are:

Subject Pronouns

Object Pronouns

Possessive Pronouns

Reflexive Pronouns

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