Personal Pronouns

For Intermediate learners

A personal pronoun is a word that substitutes a name to avoid repetition. Personal pronouns show us the grammatical person and gender of the name they refer to.

"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:

person (first, second, third)
number (singular, plural)
gender (feminine, masculine, neutral)

Person

We have three grammatical persons:

using "they" as a personal pronoun

first-person → I, me, we
second-person → you, yourselves
third-person → he, her, himself, they, them

Number

In English, pronouns are typically divided into two groups:

singular (one person) → I, me, myself
plural (more than one person) → we, us, them, ourselves

Gender

English personal pronouns have three categories based on gender:

Masculine (men/boys) → he, him, himself
Feminine (women/girls) → she, her, herself
Neutral (things/animals) → we, it, they

English Personal Pronouns

The basic personal pronouns of modern English are:

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