Pronouns (Personal, Possessive, Relative and Reflexive Pronouns)

Pronouns are words like I, me (personal pronouns) or my, mine (possessive pronouns).

Personal Pronouns Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns Reflexive Pronouns

object
subject form possessive adjective possessive pronoun
form/accusative/
I me my mine myself
you you your yours yourself
he him his his himself
she her her hers herself
it it its its itself
we us our ours ourselves
you you your yours yourselves
they them their theirs themselves

Personal Pronouns - Subject Form Possessive Pronouns

example: We have got some books. example: The books are ours.
Personal Pronouns - Object Form Reflexive Pronouns
example: The books are for us. example: He can carry the bags himself.
Possessive Adjectives Relative Pronouns
example: These are our books. example: This is the man who lives next door.

nominative case personal words it is. Possessive personal

pronouns me, you, him, her, it pronouns do not accept the
apostrophe.
singular plural
possessive case personal
I, you, he, she, it us, you, them pronouns

plural The pronouns listed above are in singular

we, you, they
The pronouns listed above are in
the nominative case. Any of
these pronouns may be used as
the subject of a sentence or in
other constructions requiring the
nominative case.
The pronoun you can be singular
or plural. The pronoun it is used
in the nominative case and is
also used in the objective case.
The pronoun it is classified as a
personal pronoun, although it
may not seem to be particularly
personal.
objective case personal
pronouns
singular
the objective case. Any of these
pronouns may be used as a
direct object, indirect object, or
as object of a preposition.
Fire him. (pronoun employed as
a direct object)
We perform better without them.
(pronoun employed as an object
of a preposition)
She gave us the letter for Roger.
(pronoun employed as an
indirect object)
Personal pronouns may be used
to indicate possession. The
pronouns below are in the
possessive case. Note that the
apostrophe punctuation is not
required. For example, the word
it's is a contraction of the two
my, mine, your, yours, his, her,
hers, its
plural
our, ours, your, yours, their,
theirs
Mine is the fourth seat on the
left. (first person, singular,
possessive case)
Yours is the third seat on the
right. (second person, singular,
possessive case)
Their seats are in business class.
(third person, plural, possessive
case)
NOTE. Some grammarians an adjective if a noun follows the possessive pronoun as in the
classify a possessive pronoun as third sentence above.

Person/Number Nominative/subject/ Accusative/object/

(Gender)

First/Singular I me

Second/Singular you you

Third/Singular he him
(Masculine)

Third/Singular (Feminine) she her

Third/Singular (Neuter) it it

First/Plural we us

Second/Plural you you

Third/Plural they them