Mastering English Pronouns

Learn all types of English pronouns—personal, possessive, reflexive, relative, and demonstrative—with clear tables and everyday examples.

1. Personal Pronouns (Subject & Object) Who does the action?

Subject pronouns perform the action in a sentence, while object pronouns receive the action.

Person	Subject Pronoun (Doer)	Object Pronoun (Receiver)	Example Usage
1st Person Singular	I	me	I gave the book to me? No, I gave it to him.
2nd Person Singular/Plural	you	you	You helped us yesterday.
3rd Person Male	he	him	He called her.
3rd Person Female	she	her	She invited them.
3rd Person Thing/Animal	it	it	It is raining; leave it alone.
1st Person Plural	we	us	We met them at the park.
3rd Person Plural	they	them	They thanked us.

Possessive adjectives come before nouns, while possessive pronouns stand alone to show ownership.

Always followed by a noun (my, your, his, her, its, our, their).

• This is my car.

• Where is your passport?

Used independently without a following noun (mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs).

• This car is mine.

• That book is hers, not yours.

Used when the subject and the object of the sentence are the exact same person or thing.

myself

I baked this cake by myself.

yourself / yourselves

Did you hurt yourself?

himself / herself / itself

He looked at himself in the mirror.

ourselves / themselves

We enjoyed ourselves at the party.

Pointing Out

Used to point to specific objects or people (this, that, these, those).

• This is my house. (near, singular)

• Those are delicious apples. (far, plural)

Connecting Clauses

Used to connect a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun (who, whom, whose, which, that).

• The man who called you is my boss.

• The car which I bought is fast.

Practice identifying subject, object, possessive, and relative pronouns with our interactive quizzes.