
Los pronombres son palabras que señalan o sustituyen a otras que normalmente ya se han nombrado.
Los pronombres en inglés pueden clasificarse en: personales (o nominales), relativos, demostrativos, indefinidos, reflexivos, posesivos y acusativos.
Personal PronounsThese take the place of common and proper nouns. |
Singular | Plural |
First Person: The person or people speaking or writing | I me | we us |
Second Person: The person or people being spoken or written to | you | you |
Third Person: The person, people, or things being spoken or written about | she, her he, him it | they them |
Relative PronounsThese relate subordinate adjective clauses to the rest of the sentence. |
that, which, who, whom, whose, whichever, whoever, whomever |
Demonstrative PronounsThese represent a thing or things. |
Singular | Plural |
Refers to things that are nearby | this | these |
Refers to things that are far away | that | those |
Indefinite PronounsThese refer to something that is unspecified. |
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Singular | anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one, somebody, someone, something |
Plural | both, few, many, several |
Singular or Plural | all, any, most, none, some |
Reflexive PronounsThese end in -self or -selves. |
Singular | Plural |
First Person: The person or people speaking or writing | myself | ourselves |
Second Person: The person or people being spoken or written to | yourself | yourselves |
Third Person: The person, people, or things being spoken or written about | himself, herself, itself | themselves |
Possessive PronounsThese are used to show ownership. |
Singular | Plural |
Used Before Nouns | my your his, her, its | our your their |
Used Alone | mine yours his, hers | ours yours theirs |
Object PronounsThese are used as the object in a sentence. |
Singular | Plural |
Objects: direct objects, indirect objects, objects of prepositions | me you her, him, it | us you them |