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Personal pronouns
Words like car, man, dog are nouns.
Pronouns are words that replace nouns (pro-nouns):
For example: Pedro drinks a Coke. You can replace "Pedro" with "He": He drinks a Coke. "He" is the personal pronoun for "Pedro".
The form of the personal pronoun depends on its number:
Word List: Personal pronouns
- I [aɪ]
(pronoun) - Definition:
- the speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject of a sentence
- Example:
- I wake up at 7 in the morning.
- You [juː]
(pronoun) - Definition:
- a singular person spoken to or written to; or if you address several other people directly
- Example:
- Are you ok?
- He [hiː]
(pronoun) - Definition:
- a male other person; the previously mentioned male
- Example:
- He is my brother.
- She [ʃiː]
(pronoun) - Definition:
- a female other person; the previously mentioned female
- Example:
- She is my sister.
- It [ɪt]
(pronoun) - Definition:
- a non-human thing
- Example:
- Put it over there.
- We [wiː]
(pronoun) - Definition:
- if you talk about you and somebody else
- Example:
- We live in England.
- They [ðeɪ]
(pronoun) - Definition:
- if you talk about other people or things, you not included
- Example:
- They live in Germany.
Source: http://www.learning-english-online.net/language-course/unit-1-on-the-plane-to-england/areas/grammar-personal-pronouns/
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