Personal pronouns

 A personal pronoun is a word that is used instead of the noun or noun phrase indicating a person or thing.

Personal pronouns can be first person, second person or third person and singular or plural.

They can be subject pronouns, object pronouns or possessive pronouns.

	Singular			Plural
	First person	Second person	Third person	First person	Second person	Third person
Subject	I	you	he, she, it	we	you	they
Object	me	you	him, her, it	us	you	them
Possessive (followed by a noun) *	my	your	his, her, its	our	your	their
Possessive (not followed by a noun)	mine	yours	his, hers	ours	yours	theirs

*Many people say that possessive pronouns followed by a noun are really adjectives or ‘determiners’. That shouldn’t worry you too much at the moment.

Examples of subject pronouns in use:

• I can play football.
• You are beautiful.
• You were all late for the lesson.
• It looks cold.
• They will cook dinner.

Examples of object pronouns in use:

• Andrew hit me.
• The woman found it.
• A taxi will collect us.

Some examples of possessive pronouns followed by a noun:

• Michelle read your book.
• Stefan uses my computer.
• Ahmed will buy our car.
• The cat drank its milk

Some examples of possessive pronouns not followed by a noun:

• That pen is mine.
• Tony believes that the book is his.
• The workers only used the tools that were theirs.
• Is this car yours?

Please remember that there is no apostrophe (‘) in yours, its, hers, ours or theirs.

Posted by Graham