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Pronouns

Pronoun types

Personal pronouns

Possessive personal pronouns

Questioning pronouns

Indefinite pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns

Reflexive pronouns

Intensive pronouns

Pronouns and antecedents

Avoiding confusing antecedent and pronoun situations

Consistent use of the pronoun it

Pronouns - singular or plural

The difference between who and whom

Pronoun consistency

First person

Second person

Third person

All third person

All first person

All third person

All second person

Reflexive pronouns

A reflexive pronoun is used when you already have the subject in a sentence, but want to refer to it again. Take this sentence for example:

Great sportspeople always have immense faith in themselves.

The subject of the sentence is ‘sportspeople’. But we’ve also got the reflexive pronoun ‘themselves’ that represents these sportspeople at the end of the sentence.

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