📄️ Introduction
Pronouns are words that are used instead of noun phrases, when it is unnecessary or impossible to use a more precise expression. Examples:
📄️ Personal pronouns: basic information
Terminology and use
📄️ Personal pronouns: advanced points
Jack and me went; between you and I; us women understand
📄️ Singular *they*
Somebody left their umbrella.
📄️ Possessive pronouns: *mine*, *yours*, etc
Like all ‘possessive’ words and structures, mine, yours, his, hers, ours and theirs can express various ideas besides possession. They are similar to my, your, etc, but they are not determiners, and are used without following nouns. Compare:
📄️ *a friend of mine*, etc
We cannot usually put a possessive between another determiner and a noun. We can say my friend, Anna’s friend, a friend or that friend, but not a my friend~~ or ~~that Anna’s friend. Instead, we use a structure with of + possessive.
📄️ reflexive pronouns: myself, etc
What are reflexive pronouns?
📄️ Reciprocal pronouns: *each other* and *one another*
No difference
📄️ somebody, someone, anybody, anyone, etc
These indefinite pronouns and adverbials replace more definite noun/adverbial phrases when it is not necessary, or not possible, to be more precise.
📄️ one, you and they: used for people in general
one and you: meaning
📄️ one (substitute word): a big one
Use