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You have already learnt about pronouns. Let’s revise them and learn some more kinds
of pronouns.

Kinds of Pronouns

Pronouns are of nine kinds. These are:

1. personal pronouns 2. demonstrative pronouns

3. possessive pronouns 4. indefinite pronouns

5. interrogative pronouns 6. reflexive pronouns

7. reciprocal pronouns 8. emphatic pronouns

9. relative pronouns

Let’s study more about them.

1. Personal Pronouns

A pronoun is a word which replaces a noun to avoid its unnecessary repetition.
Let us learn more about pronouns.
♦ Person

Pronouns are divided into three grammatical persons.
They are:

• First Person refers to the one(s) doing the speaking. (I, me, we, us)
• Second Person refers to the one(s) spoken to, i.e. directly addressed.
(you)
• Third Person refers to the one(s) spoken about. (he, she, it, him, her, they,
them.)

Person Pronouns

First I, me, we, us

Second you

Third Male he, him

Female she, her

Thing/Animal it, they, them

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