Relative Pronouns | All Types of English Pronouns - English Grammar

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]Hi guys, how are you all? Today we are going to learn about different types of pronouns. So let's start with the sentence. I met the boy blank broke my phone. Who, which, where, when? So listen guys, these words come in the middle of the sentence. We call them relative pronouns. What do we call it?

[00:00:26]Relative pronouns. And to answer this question, you need to learn the use of each of them. So who refers to people.

[00:00:38]Which refers to objects and animals. Where refers to places.

[00:00:46]When refers to time. So the keyword in this question is the word boy.

[00:00:54]Which is a person. And people take who.

[00:00:58]So the correct answer is who. I met the boy who broke my phone. Did you understand guys? Here I'm going to show you different types of pronouns. There are two types of personal pronouns, that is subject pronoun and object pronoun.

[00:01:16]Subject pronouns are the doer of the action. For example, I ran, you ran, he ran, she ran, it ran, we ran, you ran, they ran. And object pronouns are the receiver of the action. For example, she saw me, she saw you, him, her, it, us, you, them. Possessive adjectives are used before a noun to show ownership. For example, my book, your book, his book, her book, its, our, your, their. Possessive pronouns replace a noun to show ownership. Example, the book is mine. The book is yours, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs. Reflexive pronouns are used when the subject and object are the same. Example, I hurt myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.

[00:02:22]Demonstrative pronouns are used to point to specific things. This, that, these, those. This, these for things nearby.

[00:02:33]That, those for things farther away.

[00:02:36]Relative pronouns are used to connect a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun.

[00:02:42]Who or whom refers to people, which refers to animals or things, whose show possession, that refers to people, animals, or things. Interrogative pronouns are used to ask questions. Who, whoever, whom, whomever, what, whatever, which, whichever, whose. So, here who, whom, whose is asking about people.

[00:03:08]Whoever, whomever emphasizes on anyone at all. What or whatever is asking about things. Which, whichever is asking about choices. Reciprocal pronouns are used to indicate that two or more people are carrying out an action of the same type.

[00:03:24]Each other usually refers to two people.

[00:03:28]One another usually refers to more than two people. This is all about pronouns.

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