Types of proNoun

1. Personal Pronouns

Personal pronouns can be the subject of a clause or sentence.

Examples of personal pronouns:

I, he, she, it, they, we, and you.
They went to the store.

Note: Personal pronouns can also be objective, where they are the object of a verb, preposition, or infinitive phrase. They are: me, her, him, it, you, them, and us. Example: "David gave the gift to her."

2. Proper Nouns

Proper nouns are used to name a SPECIFIC person, place or thing. In English, proper nouns begin with a capital letter. Proper nouns do not normally have a determiner before them (e.g. the London, the Mary etc.) though there are some exceptions (e.g. Is she the Mary that we met at the conference?).

Examples of proper nouns: John, London, Pluto, Monday, France

3. Subjective pronouns

Subjective pronouns are often (but not always) found at the beginning of a sentence. More precisely, the subject of a sentence is the person or thing that lives out the verb.

Examples of Subjective pronouns:

I owe that person $3,000. - I am living out that debt. I is the subject pronoun.
He and I had a fight. - This sentence has two subjects because he and I were both involved in the fight.

4. Objective Pronouns

By contrast, objects and Objective Pronouns indicate the recipient of an action or motion. They come after verbs and preposition (to, with, for, at, on, beside, under, around, etc.).

Examples of Objective Pronouns:

The guy I borrowed money from showed me a crowbar and told me to pay him immediately.
I begged him for more time.

5. Possessive Pronouns

Possessive pronouns show ownership. The term covers both Possessive Pronouns and Possessive Adjective

Absolute possessive pronouns - mine, yours, ours, theirs, his, hers, its - are truly pronouns because they refer to a previously named or understood noun. They stand alone, not followed by any other noun. Take a look at this sentence:

You have your vices, and I have mine.

There are two types of pronouns here: personal (you/I) and possessive (mine). There's also a possessive adjective (your).

Your is followed by the noun vices, so although we know that your refers to you, it is not the noun or the noun substitute (pronoun). Vices is the noun. In the second half of the sentence, however, the noun and the possessive adjective have both been replaced with one word - the pronoun, mine. Because it stands in the place of the noun, mine is an absolute pronoun whereas your is a possessive adjective that must be followed by a noun.

Pronominal possessive adjectives include: my, your, our, their, his, her and its. They are used as pronouns as they refer to an understood noun, showing possession by that noun of something. They are technically adjectives, though, because they modify a noun that follows them.

My money is all gone.
I gambled it all away on your race horse.
His jockey was too fat.

In all of these examples, there is a noun (money, race horse, jockey) that has not been replaced with a pronoun. Instead, an adjective is there to show whose money, horse and jockey we're talking about.

6. Indefinite Pronouns

These pronouns do not point to any particular nouns, but refer to things or people in general. Some of them are: few, everyone, all, some, anything, and nobody.

Examples of Indefinite Pronouns:

Everyone is already here.

7. Relative Pronouns

These pronouns are used to connect a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun. These are: who, whom, which, whoever, whomever, whichever, and that.

Examples of Relative Pronouns:

The driver who ran the stop sign was careless.

8. Intensive Pronouns

These pronouns are used to emphasize a noun or pronoun. These are: myself, himself, herself, themselves, itself, yourself, yourselves, and ourselves.

Examples of Intensive Pronouns:

He himself is his worst critic.

8. Demonstrative Pronouns

There are five demonstrative pronouns: these, those, this, that, and such. They focus attention on the nouns that are replacing.

Examples of Demonstrative Pronouns:

Such was his understanding.
Those are totally awesome.

9. Interrogative Pronouns

These pronouns are used to begin a question: who, whom, which, what, whoever, whomever, whichever, and whatever.

Examples of Interrogative Pronouns:

What are you bringing to the party?

10. Reflexive Pronouns

There is one more type of pronoun, and that is the Reflexive Pronouns. These are the ones that end in "self" or "selves." They are object pronouns that we use when the subject and the object are the same noun.

Examples of Reflexive Pronouns:

I told myself not to spend all my money on new shoes.
My friend really hurt himself when he tripped on the stairs.

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