::::DEFINITION OF PRONOUN AND KINDS OF PRONOUN PART - 1

PRONOUNS

Pronouns are the words which are used instead of the Nouns. Particularly to avoid the oddness f repeating the names again again and also to reduce the length of time while writing.

Even the Nouns are innumerable the pronouns are limited and are "Seven" only.

They are: I, WE, YOU, SHE, IT and THEY.

KINDS OF PRONOUNS:

1. SUBJECTIVE PRONOUNS: When the Nouns play the role of Subject, instead of them these Pronouns are used.

They are: I, WE, YOU, HE, SHE, IT, THEY.

2. POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS: When we say the related things, people of Pronouns the Subjective forms are changed as follows:

I - MY

WE - OUR

YOU - YOUR

HE - HIS

SHE - HER

IT - ITS

THEY - THEM

But coming to Nouns the possessive case is shows by using apostrophe " 's " to the living things, 'of' to the non-living things.

USING APOSTROPHE " 'S ":

1. The possessive case of Singular Nouns which are not ended with the letter 's' are shown by using -'s.

Ex: Rama's mother, The Elephant's Trunk, The Lion's roaring. That Girl's
       attitude, Dog's tail, Farmer's house, Doctor's duty,
       Teacher's responsibility, etc.

2. But for Nouns which are ended with 's' or 'ss' only apostrophe (') is used.

Ex: Jesus' morals, For Justice' sake, For Righteousness' sake.

But where there is only one hissing sound we can use apostrophe 's or only apostrophe.

Ex: Prince's journey, Keats' Poetry.

3. And for the Plural Nouns which are formed by adding 's' we should use only apostrophe.

Ex: Teachers' colony, Boys' hostel, Doctors' attitude, Players' performance, Teams' effort, Soldiers' courage.

But for the plurals which are formed by the changing of internal vowels, we should use apostrophe + 's'.

     Ex: Woman - Women's, Man - Men's, Child - Children's.

USAGE OF THE PREPOSITION "OF" IN THE POSSESSIVE CASE OF NOUN

     For the non-living things we here to use Preposition "of" to show
    possessive case.

Ex: The wings of Fan, The legs of Chair, The name of our school,
   The development of our business, the cost of the bike.

Exception: But when the noun is unique or personified we can use apostrophe + 's'.

Ex: The sun's rays, Nature's law, at death's door.

3. PERSONAL PRONOUNS:

     I - MINE
    WE - OURS
    YOU - YOURS
    HE - HIS
    SHE - HERS
     IT - ITS
    THEY - THEIRS

NOTE: For the Nouns this personal possession is shown by using 's' only without using any apostrophe. Generally these are used at the end of sentence.

Ex: This bike is Ramas.
    That duty is Lakshmis.
    That responsibility is Radhikas.

4. OBJECTIVE PRONOUNS: When the Pronouns play the role of objects their forms are changed as follows:

I - ME, WE - US, YOU - YOU, HE - HIM, SHE - HER, IT - IT, THEY - THEM.

NOUN: But Nouns never get changed even they play object role. They are same in Subject and Object roles.

5. REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS: These are the words which shows the reflection of the actions back upon the same subject.

These are formed with the Noun 'self' for Singular Pronouns. 'Selves' for plural Pronouns.

They are:

    I- MYSELF
    WE - OURSELVES
    YOU - YOURSELF
    IT - ITSELF
    THEY - THEMSELVES

NOTE:

For the Pronoun 'you' regarding to singular we say 'yourself', for plural we say 'yourselves'. In-fact 'you' is always considered as plural form, but we can show the difference between singular and plural regarding to 2nd person 'you' related to Reflexive pronouns.