Form
Subject Pronoun + Verb
(The person or thing that ‘does’ the action)
I like music.
They are from Brazil.
Meanings
Pronouns replace nouns to avoid repetition.
The type of pronoun you use depends on its role in the sentence.
| Subject | Object | Possessive Adjective (*a determiner*) |
Possessive Pronoun | Reflexive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | me | my | mine | myself |
| you | you | your | yours | yourself |
| he | him | his | his | himself |
| she | her | her | hers | herself |
| it | it | its | – | itself |
| we | us | our | ours | ourselves |
| they | them | their | theirs | themselves |
- Subject Pronouns do the action. (We live here.)
- Object Pronouns receive the action. (He told us.)
- Possessive Adjectives come BEFORE a noun. (It is our house.)
- Possessive Pronouns REPLACE a noun. (The house is ours.)