Personal pronouns are used as a substitute for the proper name of a person. It indicates specific things or people or animals too. Students will know personal pronoun definition, common mistakes and exceptions that occur while using them.
In this learning concept , students will learn the following:
All the learning concepts covered for Class 5 have illustrations, mind maps, and examples. Students can check their understanding by attempting to solve the two printable PDF personal pronouns worksheet. The solutions to these personal pronouns worksheets for class 5 are also available in PDF format.
A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun. When you have to use the same noun repeatedly, a pronoun is used instead of the noun; hence, the same noun is usually not used repeatedly in the sentences that follow.
Rohit is going to watch a movie today. He will be eating pop corns as well.
There are eight types of pronouns. Let’s take a look at them.
We will focus only on personal pronouns in this chapter.
The pronouns that are used to refer to a person are known as personal pronouns.
He has left for school, and she will leave shortly too.
There are three forms of personal pronouns, and each has its own singular and plural forms. Let us have a look at them.
Type | Person | Personal Pronouns | |
---|---|---|---|
Subject | Object | ||
Singular | 1st 2nd 3rd |
i you he, she, it |
me you him, her,it |
Plural | 1st 2nd 3rd |
we you they |
us you them |
There are two types of personal pronouns.
Subject pronouns are used to replace the name that is the used as a subject in a sentence. They are words like I, you, she, he, it, we, and they.
Object pronouns take the object’s place in a sentence that includes me, her, him, you, it, them, and us. These pronouns are used as both direct and indirect objects.
Example:
Next week, my friends and I will be travelling to the hills. ✅
Next week, my friends and me will be travelling to the hills. ❌
Example:
Both my parents and I enjoyed the trip. ✅
Both my parents and myself enjoyed the trip. ❌
When I went to visit my aunt in the hospital, I saw her child in her arms. It was crying very loudly.
The word ‘it’ is used to refer to the child whose gender is not known.
Possessive pronouns are used to express possession. Simultaneously they avert repetition in a sentence. In this chapter students will know possessive pronoun definition and common mistakes that could happen while using them.
In this learning concept students will learn:
All the learning concepts covered for Class 5 have illustrations, mind maps, and examples. After going through this concept, students can check their understanding by solving the two printable PDF possessive pronouns worksheet. The solutions to these possessive pronouns exercises are also available in PDF format.
The usage of possessive pronouns is better understood when we look at the types of possessive pronouns. It can be divided into two types: Singular possessive pronouns and plural possessive pronouns.
a) Singular Possessive Pronouns:
When a possessive pronoun refers to only one person or thing, it is called a singular possessive pronoun. The list of singular possessive pronouns is –
Examples:
In both sentences, we replaced the nouns ‘house’ and ‘umbrella’ with the singular possessive pronoun ‘yours’ and ‘hers’ to refer to one person.
b) Plural Possessive Pronouns:
When a possessive pronoun refers to more than one person or thing, it is called a plural possessive pronoun. The list of plural possessive pronouns is –
Examples:
Instead of mentioning the nouns ‘class’ and ‘team’ repetitively, we used plural possessive pronouns ‘ours’ and ‘theirs’ to refer to more than one person.
Singular Pronouns | Singular possessive pronouns |
---|---|
he | his |
her | hers |
my | mine |
I | mine |
your | yours |
Plural Pronouns | Plural possessive pronouns |
---|---|
our | ours |
your | yours |
their | theirs |
1. Don’t make mistakes between possessive pronoun and possessive adjective.
Examples: The book is mine.
Examples: This is my book.
2. We can’t change the form of a possessive pronoun into plural. It doesn’t matter whether a possessive pronoun refers to one or more than one object. The form remains the same.
Examples:
This crayon is mine.✅
These crayons are my.❌
Intensive pronouns emphasize the antecedent or the subject of the sentence. It is usually found after the noun or pronoun it's changing, but not essentially. In this chapter students will learn intensive pronoun definition, usage and the rules’ exceptions while using it.
In this learning concept, the following are covered:
All the learning concepts covered for Class 5 have illustrations, mind maps, and examples. Students after going through this concept, can assess their respective skills by solving the two printable PDF worksheets that consists of intensive pronouns exercises. The solutions to these are also available in PDF format.
An intensive pronoun can refer to one or more than one pronoun. It can be divided into two types singular intensive pronoun and plural intensive pronoun.
a) Singular Intensive Pronouns:
1. If an intensive pronoun refers to one person, it is a singular intensive pronoun. The suffix ‘self’ is found in the words
2. Singular intensive pronouns are myself, himself, herself, yourself, and itself.
Example:
b) Plural Intensive Pronouns:
1. If an intensive pronoun refers to more than one person, it is a plural intensive pronoun.
2. Plural intensive pronouns are ourselves, themselves, and yourselves.
Example:
1. Intensive pronouns are sometimes confused with reflexive pronouns; however, they differ in terms of their usage.
Example:
a) Rasesh bought the ice cream for himself.
b) Rasesh himself has bought the ice cream.
In the first example, the ‘himself’ adds information to the part of the sentence and changes the meaning. ‘Himself’ is the object in the sentence. Hence, it is a reflexive pronoun. In the second example, the ‘himself’ adds emphasis to the sentence without which the sentence makes complete sense.
2. Sometimes, intensive pronouns can be positioned away from the noun they refer to.
Example:
Sonam wrote the poem herself.
3. Sometimes, they may not be connected with the subject but some other noun in the sentence.
Example:
Jitesh felt his effort itself was not good enough to finish the work.
In this concept, students will learn about the difference between personal and reflexive pronouns with examples and pictures. They will also study some pronouns that are explicitly used with reflexive pronouns
In this learning concept, the students will learn:
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Example:
Instead of using the noun ‘Shreya’ again, we use the pronoun ‘She’ in the second sentence.
Pronouns can be divided into many types, but we will discuss two pronouns: personal pronouns and reflexive pronouns.
A personal pronoun sits in place of a noun which can be a particular person or thing.
Examples:
Neha slept early today as she worked hard.
The personal pronoun ‘she’ is used to replace the proper noun. The sentence means- Neha slept early today because she (Neha) worked hard.
Examples:
She invited herself to the party.
In this sentence, ‘herself’ is the reflexive pronoun, ‘she’ is the subject and ‘herself’ is the object.
Reflexive pronouns are words like myself, yourself, himself, herself, oneself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves. Every reflexive pronoun is used with specific pronouns. These pronouns cannot be replaced by another pronoun as the pronoun shows the gender or the singular or plural form of the noun.
Sneha went to the market as she had to travel to the city soon.
In the above sentence, ‘she’ is the personal pronoun.
b. Example of Reflexive Pronoun:
Harry sometimes talks to himself in his sleep.
In the above example, ‘himself’ is the reflexive pronoun. Harry is talking to himself.
While replacing any noun with a pronoun in a sentence, make sure to keep the gender in mind. The gender should be the same as the noun.
Ravi is a nice boy; hence everybody likes him.
Ravi is a nice boy hence everybody likes her.