Grammar | Personal and Possessive | Definition and Examples

Pronouns

Personal and Possessive - Definition and Examples

Definition:

The Pronouns used in the next sentences as like are personal Pronouns, which are by far the largest and most active group of pronouns. 

Notice that, with the exception of you, these Pronouns change from to show number. With the exception of you and it, they take one from in subject or complement position in the sentence and another form in object position. The following sentences are examples of singular and plural subject Pronouns.

Personal Pronouns:

_ She likes opera.         _ They like opera.

_ He lives in Miami.           _ They live in Miami.

_ It looks pretty.           _ They look pretty.

_ What is it?           _ What are they?

_ Who is he?          _ Who are they?

_ Who can she be?          _ Who can they be?

_ You are welcome.         _ You are welcome?

The following sentences use both singular and plural object Pronouns:

_ John likes her.      _ John likes them.

_ They like him.      _ They like them.

_ Do you see it?       _ Do you see them?

_ Give it to him.       _ Give them to them.

_ Give her a chance.      _ Give them a chance.

Like Nouns, the personal Pronouns show possession. An apostrophe is no used to indicate possession, but the form of Pronoun is changed.

_ This is.... book, not....

_ This is her book, not theirs.

_ This is Tom's book, not Alice's.

Possessive Pronouns:

One kind of possessive Pronoun appears before the noun as a deter- Miner, as in:

My book, your table his class, her purse, our class, their names.

The other form of the possessive Pronoun is used in all noun positions:

_ This is her book, not......

_ This is Tom's book, not Alice's.

_ This is Tom's book, not mine.

                                            His

                                            Ours

                                            Theirs

_ I saw John's car, not hers.

_ I didn't see hers.

_ If you look for his coat, look for mine, too.

_ They consider the house hers.

_ I haven't seen John's book, but yours is on the table.

_ This is idea was his.