How to use Pronoun in English Grammar

A pronoun is a word used in the place of a noun Types of pronouns:

Personal Pronouns:

Person	Singular	Plural
First person	I	We
Second person	You	You
Third person	He, She, It	They

Forms of pronouns: (Cases)

Nomination case	Accusativecase	Possessive Adjective	Possessive  Pronouns
(Subject)	(Object)
I	Me	My	Mine
We	Us	Our	Ours
You	You	Your	Yours
He	Him	His	His
She	Her	Her	Hers
It	It	Its	Its
They	Them	Their	Theirs

Note: The forms my, our, your, her, its and there are determiners. They can also be used as possessive adjectives. 

Possessive Pronouns:

Example:

This book is his. 

Reflexive Pronouns:

Example:

1.             She washed herself at a well.

2.            They killed themselves for no reason.

3.            I must blame myself for this. 

Emphatic Pronouns:
Example:
I offered to drive the car myself. She herself made the mistake. 
 

Demonstrative Pronouns:

Example:

1.            That is Dr. Rao’s house

2.            Those are some new buildings.

3.            This is your passport.

4.            These are good books.

Indefinite Pronouns:

Example:

1.            Some are born great

2.            Anyone can take a horse to the pond, but no one can make it drink.

Other indefinite pronouns are:

Somebody, anybody, anything, something, (the) other, others, another, nobody, nothing etc. 

Pronouns of Number:

Example:

1.            Of the ten guests, three were men.

2.            Many of them are not good books.

Pronouns of Quantity:

Example:

More, much, little, etc. 

Distributive Pronouns:

Look at the pronouns underlined in the sentences given below:

Example:

1.            Everyone has his own problems.

2.            Either of these applications can be employed.

3.            Neither of the students can get through the examination.

4.            Each of those players deserves a prize.

5.            Everybody will be given a chance to participate in his match.

These words. Which are underlined, are distributive pronouns? They are called so because they refer to persons considered individually. The distributive pronouns are in the singular number and are therefore followed by singular verbs.

Note:

1.            Neither is a negative word which is used to refer to two persons or things.

2.            None is also a negative word which is used to refer to more than two persons or things.

3.            The usage: Each one of the boys …………… (is wrong because ‘one’ becomes redundant)

Reciprocal Pronouns:

Look at these sentences:

Example:

1.            The two girls helped each other in every respect.

2.            The political parties quarreled with one another.

Each other and one another express a mutual or reciprocal relationship. They are considered as single units, and are called reciprocal pronouns or ‘compound personal pronouns’.

Note each other is usually used to refer to two persons or things and one another to more than two persons or things. 

Interrogative Pronouns:

The words underlined in the following sentences are called interrogative pronouns because they are used in questions.

Example:

1.            Who is the president of India?

2.            Whose is this calculator?

3.            To whom did you give the parcel?

4.            Which is the road to the hospital?

5.            What have you do now?

6.            Whom did you borrow this book from?

7.            Whom did she refer in her lecture?

Relative Pronouns:

Look at these sentences.

Example:

1.            The gentleman who is speaking is our principal.

2.            This is the gentleman whose guest I was in Bombay