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| interrogative pronoun | used to form questions (who, what, whomever, whom, which, whatever, whose, whoever, whichever) |
| relative pronoun | used to begin a subordinate clause (who, whom, whoever, whomever, whose, which, whichever, whatever, that, what) |
| personal pronoun | refers to a specific person, place, thing, or idea by indicating the person speaking (1st person), the person or people being spoken to (2nd person), or any other person, place, thing or idea being discussed (3rd person) |
| possessive pronoun | takes the place of the possessive form of a noun (e.g., his, her, my, their) |
| demonstrative pronoun | points out specific persons, places, things, or ideas (this, that, these, those) |
| reflexive pronoun | always ends in -self or -selves and refers, or reflects back, to the subject of the sentence, indicating that the same person or thing is involved and always adds information to a sentence (myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves) Example sentence: She gave "herself" a raise. |
| intensive pronoun | always ends in -self or -selves and adds emphasis to another noun or pronoun in the same sentence; can be taken out without changing the meaning of the sentence (myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves) Example sentence: I "myself" made the entire meal. |
| 1st person PERSONAL pronouns | I, me, we, us |
| 2nd person PERSONAL pronoun | you |
| 3rd person PERSONAL pronouns | he, him, she, her, they, them, it |
| 1st person POSSESSIVE pronouns | my, mine, our, ours |
| 2nd person POSSESSIVE pronouns | your, yours |
| 3rd person POSSESSIVE pronouns | his, her, hers, its, their, theirs |
| pronoun | a word that takes the place of one noun or more than one noun |
| indefinite pronoun | refers to persons, places, things, or ideas in a more general way than a noun does (e.g., all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each, no one, one, someone, nobody, either, neither) |
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