List of Pronouns
Personal Pronounstake the place of common and proper nouns. | Singular | Plural |
First Person: the person or people speaking or writing | I me | we us |
Second Person: the person or people being spoken or written to | you | you |
Third Person: the person, people, or things being spoken or written about | she, her he, him it | they them |
Relative Pronounsrelate a subordinate clause to the rest of the sentence. | that, which, who, whom, whose, whichever, whoever, whomever |
Demonstrative Pronounsrepresent a thing or things. | Singular | Plural |
Refers to things that are nearby | this | these |
Refers to things that are far away | that | those |
Indefinite Pronounsrefer to something that is unspecified. | |
Singular | anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one, somebody, someone, something |
Plural | both, few, many, several |
Singular or Plural | all, any, most, none, some |
Reflexive Pronounsend in self or selves. | Singular | Plural |
First Person: the person or people speaking or writing | myself | ourselves |
Second Person: the person or people being spoken or written to | yourself | yourselves |
Third Person: the person, people, or things being spoken or written about | himself, herself, itself | themselves |
Interrogative Pronounsare used to ask questions. | what, who, which, whom, whose |
Possessive Pronounsare used to show ownership. | Singular | Plural |
Used Before Nouns | my your his, her, its | our your their |
Used Alone | mine yours his, hers | ours yours theirs |
Subject and Object Pronouns | Singular | Plural |
Subject: whom or what the sentence is about | I you she, he, it | we you they |
Object: direct objects, indirect objects, objects of prepositions | me you her, him, it | us you them |
How Do You Diagram Pronouns?
Sentence diagramming is a visual way to show how the words in a sentence are related to each other.
Pronouns can do many things in a sentence, and the way they are diagrammed depends on the way that they are acting in each sentence.
Here are four of the jobs that pronouns can do: subject, direct object, indirect object, and object of the preposition.