Personal Pronouns

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Personal Pronouns refer to certain specific persons, places or things. They change their form depending on person, number or gender.

• Person:
  First person: The person who is talking (I, me, we, us, our, ours)
  I love cookies!

• John gave us a call.

• We won the game.

• Our family went to the beach.

• The green car is ours.

Second person: The person being talked to (you, yours)

• You are invited to the party.

• That book is yours.

Third person: The person being talked about (he, she, it, they, them, their , theirs)

• He called the doctor.

• The teacher gave him a test.

• She has a bad cold.

• The police asked her for identification.

• It has a large tail.

• They skated for an hour.

• The coach called them off the field.

Number
The number of the pronoun refers to whether it is singular or plural (more than one).

Singular: I, me, my, mine, you, yours, he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its

Plural: we, us, our, ours, you, yours, they, them, their, theirs

Gender
The gender refers to whether the pronoun refers to a man, a woman or a neutral object that is neither male or female.

Case
Case refers to whether the pronoun is the subject, object or a possessive form of the pronoun.

Subject: I, my, mine, we, our, ours

Object: me, my, you, yours, he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its