Pronoun & its types :

Pronoun & its types

A Pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase to avoid repetition.

संज्ञा को दोहराने से बचने के लिए संज्ञा के स्थान पर प्रयुक्त होने वाले शब्द को सर्वनाम कहते है

E.g. - I, we, you, he, she, it, they, this, that, these, those etc.

Mohan is my friend. He is a player. He plays well.

Kinds of Pronoun (सर्वनाम के प्रकार):

1) Personal Pronoun (पुरुषवाचक सर्वनाम)

2) Demonstrative Pronoun (संकेतवाचक सर्वनाम)

3) Interrogative Pronoun (प्रश्नवाचक सर्वनाम)

4) Indefinite Pronoun (अनिश्चियवाचक सर्वनाम)

5) Relative Pronoun (संबंधवाचक सर्वनाम)

6) Distributive Pronoun (विभागसूचक सर्वनाम)

7) Reflexive Pronoun (निजवाचक सर्वनाम)

8) Emphatic Pronoun (दृढ़तासूचक सर्वनाम)

9) Reciprocal Pronoun (परस्परवाचक सर्वनाम)

                              

                    

                     

                                    

1) Personal Pronoun (पुरुषवाचक सर्वनाम)-

A Personal Pronoun is used in place of a person or a thing. Personal pronouns refer to the person or people who is speaking (first person), the person or people being spoken to (second person) & the person or people (third person) to whom are talking about.

                 

E.g. - I,  we,  you,  he, she,  it,  they.

• He is a teacher.
• It is a book.

                      

                       

2) Demonstrative Pronoun (संकेतवाचक सर्वनाम)-

 A  Demonstrative Pronoun is a pronoun which points to a noun (a person or thing).

E.g. - This,  that,  these,  those.

• This is my book.
• Those are birds.

3) Interrogative Pronoun (प्रश्नवाचक सर्वनाम)-

Interrogative Pronouns are used to ask questions. 

E.g. - Who, whose, whom, which, what etc.

• What are you doing?
• Which is your book?

4) Indefinite Pronoun (अनिश्चियवाचक सर्वनाम)-

Indefinite Pronouns do stand for some person or thing but we don't know for exactly whom.

E.g. - None, all, many, few, some, one, something.

• Somebody has stolen my watch.

5) Relative Pronoun (संबंधवाचक सर्वनाम)-

Relative Pronouns are those pronouns  that join relative sentence  and clauses and show the relation to a noun and modify the same noun.

E.g. - Who, which, whose, whom, that etc.

• This is the book which I bought.

6) Distributive Pronoun (विभागसूचक सर्वनाम)-

Distributive Pronouns refer to individual elements in a group or a pair.

E.g. - Each, either, neither etc.

• Each of the boys got a prize.

7) Reflexive Pronoun (निजवाचक सर्वनाम)-

A Reflexive Pronoun expresses that subject's action affects the subject itself.

E.g. - Himself,  herself,  itself,  yourself, ourselves.

• He prepared  himself for the test.
• I can do it myself.

8) Emphatic Pronoun (दृढ़तासूचक सर्वनाम)-

Emphatic Pronouns emphasize the subject.  These are used in Nominative  Case.

E.g. - Myself, yourself, himself, itself.

• I myself can do it.

9) Reciprocal Pronoun (परस्परवाचक सर्वनाम)-

A Reciprocal Pronoun is used if two or more subjects act in a same manner.

E.g. - Each other, one another.

• Mohan and Sohan helped each other.
• The girls helped one another.