tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26441940.post-37976484364905321422007-02-01T20:43:00.000-08:002007-02-03T23:46:28.679-08:00<div align="justify">Words which are used instead of nouns are called <strong>pronouns</strong>.<br /></div><div align="justify"><strong>Classes of Pronouns:</strong> Pronouns are divided into seven classes viz. (i) Personal Pronoun, (ii) Relative Pronoun (iii) Demonstrative Pronoun, (iv) Interrogative Pronoun (v)Reflexiv Pronoun, (vi) Indefinit Pronoun and (vii) Distributive Pronoun.<br /><br /><strong>Personal Pronoun:</strong> The pronoun, which represents a person,is called<br />'Personal Pronoun'. e.g.: I, you.<br /><br />Personal pronouns have been divided into 'persons'.<br /></div><div align="justify"><strong>First Person Pronouns:</strong> The pronouns, which are used by the person who is taking for himself, are called 'First Person Pronouns'. e.g.: I, we, me, us, my, our.<br /></div><div align="justify"><strong>Second Person Pronouns:</strong> The pronouns, which are used for the person who is listening, are called 'Second Person Pronouns'. e.g. you, your.<br /></div><div align="justify"><strong>Number and Gender of Personal Pronouns:</strong> As the 'pronouns' are used in place of some 'noun', the number nad gender of it are same as that of the relative noun.<br /></div><div align="justify"><strong>Relative Pronoun:</strong> A pronoun which connects two statments is called 'Relative Pronoun'.<br /></div><div align="justify">Example: I met Mohan <em>who</em> lives in Raipur. Here 'who' is relative pronoun.<br /></div><div align="justify"><strong>Demonstrative Pronouns:</strong> The pronouns which points to some other person, place or thing, are called 'Demonstrative Pronouns'. e.g. he, she, they, it, him, his, her, them, their.<br /></div><div align="justify"><em>Note: Often demonstrative pronouns are erroneously treated as personal pronoun of third person, but a pronoun which do not denote a person directly can not be a personal pronoun. For personal pronous (like I, you etc.) naming of person no not necessary but 'He is a good man.' can not be said without naming the person for whom the pronoun 'he' is being used.<br /></em></div><div align="justify"><strong>Interrogative Pronouns:</strong> The pronouns used for asking questions are called 'Interrogative Pronouns'. These are who, which and what.<br /></div><div align="justify">Some example sentences are shown below as examples:<br /></div><div align="justify"><em>Who</em> are you?<br /><em>Which</em> do you want?<br /><em>What</em> do you want?<br /><br /><strong>Reflexiv Pronouns:</strong> Pronouns used to denote that the action of the subject is turned back upon himself, are called 'Reflxive Pronouns'.<br />Some example sentences are shown below as examples:<br /></div><div align="justify">I hurt <em>myself</em>.<br />Know <em>yourself</em>.<br /><br /><strong>Indefinite Pronouns:</strong> Pronouns which do not signify any particular person place or thing are called 'Indefinite Pronouns'. e.g. anybody, other etc.<br /></div><div align="justify">Some example sentences are shown below as examples:<br /></div><div align="justify"><em>Anybody</em> can do it.<br />Let <em>another</em> eat.<br /><br /><strong>Distributive Pronoun:</strong> The pronouns each, either and neither are called 'Destributive Pronouns' as they denote all of of a class taken separately.<br /></div><div align="justify">Some example sentences are shown below as examples:<br /></div><div align="justify"><em>Each</em> of them has performed satisfactorily.<br /><em>Either</em> of the two pencils will do.<br /><em>Neither</em> of them came.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26441940-3797648436490532142?l=engra.blogspot.com'/></div>जी.के. अवधियाnoreply@blogger.com0