Pronoun - English Grammar Notes

Published on Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Used in place of 'Noun'.

Pronoun
Examples He, she, his ,they ,we , us , me , my , mine , I ,
you , it , ours , your , your , hers , her , its , their , theirs

# Types
1. Nominative : Used as a subject in the sentence.
Examples I , We , You etc.

2. Objective : Used as an object in the sentence on which work is going on.

Examples me , him , her , it etc.

3. Possessive : Pronouns which show possessiveness.

Difference Between ' my ' & ' mine '

' my ' is used before the noun.

' mine ' is used after the noun.

 Difference Between ' your ' and ' yours '

' Your ' used before the ' noun '.

' Yours ' used after the ' noun '.

Table of Pronoun
# OBJECTIVE PRONOUN
Rule 1: After Preposition we have to use objective pronoun.

Example :
Example :

Difference between ' I ' and ' me '

' I ' is used as a subject , which is do some work.

' me ' is worked as object on which work is going on , so it always used as a object , is a
objective noun and used after preposition.

Rule 2: After ' Let '

Objective pronoun is used after ' Let '

Examples:

# NOMINATIVE PRONOUN
Rule 3: After 'Than'

When there is any comparison between two , then nominative

pronoun is used.

Examples:

His efforts will bring him more success than your's.

 You should be true to your word. or One should be true to his word.

The dog I have bought looks more ferocious(wild) , than the one you have.

The hotel of Patna are more luxurious than those of Muzaferpur.

Yours are the same problems as mine.

Reflexive Pronoun
# Transitive verbs :
Verbs which requires object after them, those are known as transitive verb.

Example:
Children fly kites.

[ here fly acts as transitive verb because children fly doesn't make
any sense, So noun is used to complete the sentence Those verbs which always comes
along with Pronoun or noun is known as transitive verb ]

Birds fly.

[ Here fly is not a transitive verb ]

Some verb which act as transitive verbs

cut
kill
introduce
hurt
eat
absent
hit
watch
avail
cheat
prostrate
enjoy
Example :
We use a reflexive pronoun as object or complement when it refers to the same thing
as the subject.The pronouns which are used with transitive verb as a object are known
as reflexive pronoun.

Reflexive Pronoun are :

he himself
her herself
it itself
they themselves
I myself
you yourself
we ourselves
one oneselfs
Examples:

[ here , absent is not work as transitive verb , it is used as adjective so reflexive

pronoun is not used here]

He prostrated himself before his master , who had come from london after a year.

The officer as well as the assistants absented themselves from the office.[ Correct ;
himself ]

[ In the sentence there is ' as well as ' used with which verb is changed to 1st noun or
pronoun and here officer , so 'themselves' is changed himself.

* Exception
Transitive verb does not use reflexive pronoun.
keep
 stop
bathe
turn
rest
qualify
hide

Examples:

# In-transitive Verb
Verb which does not require object.

Birds fly.
English Grammar Short notes about Prepositions
Prepositions of Time / Place at, in, on

At for a PRECISE TIME

In for MONTHS, YEARS, CENTURIES and LONG PERIODS
On for DAYS and Dates

At In On

At 4:30 pm in March on Monday

At 3 o'clock In Winter On 6 March

At noon In the summer On 22 Dec.2012

At dinnertime In 1990 On Christmas Day

In the next
At bedtime On your birthday
century

At the moment In the future On New Year's Eve

Other Important Prepositions: -

Prepositions use Example

during the film,during the

during while in
war, during my stay

for for two days, for an hour

from Saturday to Monday,

from / to
from 5 to 9

the time
between 1986 and 2012,
period from
between between Saturday and
one to
Monday
another

before a
until/till until/till Sunday,5 o'clock
certain time

by Tuesday, by next month,

by at the least
by tomorrow

movement to school, to work, to the

to
towards station

into movement into the cinema, into the car

 towards
inside
something

to leave a out of the cinema,out of the

out of
place/a thing car

near/next LINK stand by me, by the

by
to/beside lake

through the tunnel, through

through
the room

across the river, across the

across opposite ends
street

against the wall, against the

against
door

movement
towards
into into the cinema, into the car
inside
something