Pronouns are words that can be used instead of a noun to tell us what the subject of the sentence is.
- I
- you
- we
- she
- he
- they
- it
- me
- them
We can replace a noun with a pronoun to avoid repetition.
- My mother likes music and movies. My mother doesn’t like cooking.
- My mother likes music and movies. She doesn’t like cooking.
The second “my mother” is replaced by “she.”
Possessive pronouns tell us who or what something belongs to:
- mine
- ours
- yours
- his
- hers
- its
- theirs
This dog Taz. He likes to run and swim. His favourite toy is a ball.
This sentence has 1 pronoun (he) and 1 possessive pronoun (his).