Pronouns

1. Definition of Personal Pronouns

Personal pronouns, also known as reference pronouns, are words used to represent a noun referring to a person, animal, object, or event mentioned in the sentence or a previous sentence to avoid unnecessary repetition.

Purpose:

• Replace a noun or noun phrase.
• Reduce repetition of a word multiple times in sentences.

Example:

• My father is a teacher.
• My father is tall.
• My father has black hair.

➢ When describing your father, repeatedly using “My father” can make the text monotonous and tiring for the reader, right?

2. Classification of Personal Pronouns

3. Functions of Personal Pronouns

✅ Summary:

• Personal pronouns can occupy various positions and play roles such as subject, object, or following a preposition in a sentence.
• Each personal pronoun has two forms: subject form and object form.

➢ As learned above, personal pronouns are words used to represent a noun or noun phrase. Therefore, personal pronouns can occupy positions where a noun or noun phrase can appear in a sentence, specifically:

• Subject
• Object
• Following a preposition (in a prepositional phrase)

➢ However, personal pronouns differ from nouns in that they have two different forms depending on their position in the sentence, while nouns have only one form.

Example with nouns:

• Subject position: The student is good at math.
• Object position: I like the student.
• Following a preposition: I went to the park with the student.

Example with personal pronouns:

• Subject position: He is good at math.
• Object position: I like him.
• Following a preposition: I went to the park with him.

The student is good at math. I like him. I went to the park with him.

➢ Thus, personal pronouns have two forms: one used when the pronoun is in the subject position, and another used when it is in the object position or following a preposition.

Below is a table summarizing and comparing the two forms of personal pronouns:

Subject	Object & Following Preposition
I	me
you	you
he	him
she	her
it	it
we	us
you	you
they	them

4. Other Types of Pronouns Related to Personal Pronouns

Subject Personal Pronoun	Object Personal Pronoun	Reflexive Pronoun	Possessive Pronoun	Possessive Adjective
I	me	myself	mine	my
you	you	yourself	yours	your
he	him	himself	his	his
she	her	herself	hers	her
it	it	itself	(none)	its
we	us	ourselves	ours	our
you (you all)	you (you all)	yourselves	yours	your
they	them	themselves	theirs	their