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Practical English Grammar


personal pronouns


A personal pronoun refers to people, places, things, and ideas.

➲ A first-person personal pronoun refers to the one (or ones) speaking.
The singular first-person pronouns are I, me, my, and mine. The plural
first-person personal pronouns are we, our, ours, and us.
We told our story.
I offered my opinion to the reporters.
Ours is the less expensive model.
The new family moved next door to us.
➲ A second-person personal pronoun refers to the one (or ones)
spoken to. The singular and plural second-person personal pronouns
are the same three words—you, your, and yours.
Can you bring your book back here today?
The present will be given to you.
This award is yours.

➲ The third-person personal pronoun is the one (or ones) spoken
about. The singular third-person personal pronouns include he, his,
him, she, her, hers, it, and its. The plural third-person personal pronouns
include they, their, theirs, and them.

He and she wanted to take their children on a vacation.
They asked him and her if the house had kept its appeal.
Do you think that they will think that this car is theirs?

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Practical English Grammar - Notes
1. compound subjects part two
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2. Quotation Marks Part Three
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3. Italics Hyphens and Brackets
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4. complete and simple subjects
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5. Sound a like words Part Four
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6. Commas Part Two
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7. the adjective clause
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8. what good writers do
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9. the indirect object
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10. The Apostrophe
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11. Confusing usage words part five
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12. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks
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13. subject and verb agreement
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14. the object of the preposition
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15. Commas Part Four
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16. First Capitalization List
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17. The coordinating conjunction
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18. Confusing usage words part three
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19. Quotation Marks Part One
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20. Quotation Marks Part Two
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21. compound subjects part one
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22. Confusing usage words part one
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23. Confusing usage words part three
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24. complex sentences
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25. Transitive and intransitive verbs
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26. subject verb agreement situations
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27. pronouns and their antecedents
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28. introducing phrases
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29. the prepositional phrase
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30. the participle and participial phrase
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31. agreement involving prepositional phrases
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32. the verb phrase
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33. types of nouns
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34. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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35. Commas Part One
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36. agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents
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37. regular verb tenses
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38. the correlative conjunction
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39. the subordinating conjunction
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40. complete and simple predicates
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41. compound subject and compound predicate
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42. personal pronouns
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43. The nominative case
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44. the gerund and gerund phrase
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45. the infinitive and infinitive phrase
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46. Confusing usage words part eight
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47. Parentheses Ellipsis Marks and Dashes
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48. The verb be
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49. types of sentences by purpose
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50. subject complements predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives
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