Types of pronoun with examples

A pronoun is used in the place of a noun.

Pronoun examples

It substitutes the noun in a paragraph or piece of writing to avoid repetition of the noun.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines pronouns as ‘any of a small set of words (such as I, she, he, you, it, we, or they) in a language that are used as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and whose referents are named or understood in the context’.

According to the Collins Dictionary, ‘A pronoun is a word that you use to refer to someone or something when you do not need to use a noun, often because the person or thing has been mentioned earlier. Examples are ‘it’, ‘she’, ‘something’, and ‘myself’.’

There are ten main types of pronouns.

They are:

• Relative pronouns
• Reflexive pronouns
• Object pronouns
• Personal pronouns / Subject pronouns
• Reciprocal Pronouns
• Possessive pronouns
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Interrogative pronouns
• Indefinite pronouns
• Intensive pronouns