What are Pronouns? What are Pronouns? IIHeHe

WeWeWe

ShShee

UsUs

What are pronouns?What are pronouns?Pronouns take the Pronouns take the place of nouns.place of nouns. The word or phrase replaced by a pronoun is called an antecedentantecedent.

Example:Example: Halloween is one of America's holidays. It is celebrated in October.

(HalloweenHalloween is a noun. ItIt is a pronoun that refers to the antecedent, Halloween.)

Example:Example: When Robert was fixing the car, he cut his hand.

(RobertRobert is a noun. HeHe is a pronoun that refers to the antecedent, Robert.)

Personal PronounsPersonal Pronouns

Refer to people or things

ME!

Include: I, me, my, mine, you, your, yours, he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs, we, us, our, ours.

Personal Pronouns

Pronouns such as we, I, he, them, and it are called personal pronouns.

We can segregate personal pronouns by Person: first-person, second-person, third

person Number: Singular or Plural Case: Subject or Object, Possessive