Pronouns

Pronouns

Main article: English pronouns

Pronouns are a relatively small, closed class of words that function in the place of nouns or noun phrases. They include personal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, relative pronouns, interrogative pronouns, and some others, mainly indefinite pronouns. The full set of English pronouns is presented in the following table. Nonstandard, informal and archaic forms are in italics.

			Nominative	Accusative	Reflexive	Independent genitive	Dependent genitive
			(subject)	(object)		(possessive)
First-person	Singular		I	me	myself	mine	my mine (before vowel; archaic) me (esp. BrE)
	Plural		we	us	ourselves ourself	ours	our
Second-person	Singular	Standard	you	you	yourself	yours	your
		Archaic informal	thou	thee	thyself	thine	thy thine (before vowel)
	Plural	Standard	you	you	yourselves	yours	your
		Archaic	ye	you	yourselves	yours	your
		Nonstandard	ye you all y'all youse etc. (see above)	ye you all y'all youse	yeerselves y'all's (or y'alls) selves	yeers y'all's (or y'alls)	yeer y'all's (or y'alls)
Third-person	Singular	Masculine	he	him	himself	his
		Feminine	she	her	herself	hers	her
		Neuter	it	it	itself	its	its
		Epicene	they	them	themselves themself	theirs	their
	Plural		they	them	themselves	theirs	their
Generic	Formal		one	one	oneself		one's
	Informal		you	you	yourself	yours	your
Wh-	Relative and interrogative	For persons	who	whom who		whose†	whose
		Non-personal	what	what
	Relative only		which	which			whose
Reciprocal				each other one another
Dummy			there it	it