Pronouns

A pronoun is a word used instead of a noun.

There are six kinds of commonly used pronouns:

1. Personal Pronouns: Personal Pronouns are used are substitutes for proper or common nouns. 
   Examples : I, he, she, mine, his, her, they, their
    
   
2. Demonstrative Pronouns: Demonstrative Pronouns are used to point out objects
   Examples: this, that, these, those
    
   
3. Indefinite Pronouns: Pronouns which refer to things in a general way and not to someone or something in particular.
   Examples: nobody, somebody, everybody, one (should not lie)
    
   
4. Distributive Pronouns: Pronouns which refer to persons or things one at a time are called Distributive pronouns. 
   Examples: each, either, neither
    
   
5. Relative Pronouns: A pronoun that relates a subordinate clause to the rest of the sentence is called a relative pronoun.
   Examples: who -  (Raj is the boy) who (did the work)
                     whose – (Raj is the boy) whose (books were lost)
    
   
6. Interrogative Pronouns: Pronouns used for asking questions are called Interrogative Pronouns.
   Examples : what, which, who, whose, whom