What is Pronoun with examples

Pronoun definition and types

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What is the definition of a pronoun?

Pronoun:- A Pronoun is a word which is used in place of a noun.

Noun (संज्ञा) के स्थान पर प्रयुक्त होने वाले शब्द को Pronoun (सर्वनाम) कहते हैं।

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A Pronoun is a word that replaces a noun.

Types of Pronoun

KINDS OF PRONOUN

• Personal Pronoun 
• Reflexive Pronoun
• Emphatic Pronoun 
• Demonstrative Pronoun
• Interrogative Pronoun 
• Indefinite Pronoun
• distributive Pronoun
• Relative Pronoun

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PERSONAL PRONOUN

Personal Pronoun definition

1. Personal Pronoun :- Personal Pronoun is used for persons or things.

Personal pronoun व्यक्तियों या वस्तुओं के लिए प्रयोग होता है।

या 

यह pronoun किसी व्यक्ति, वस्तु, पशु, पक्षी या स्थान आदि का बोध कराता है।

Example:

I go to temple.

He visited the Taj. 

You are a nice fellow. 

They will go to Delhi. 

It is a beautiful picture. 

She is a great poet.

Personal pronoun तीन प्रकार के होते हैं -

(a) First Person (उत्तम पुरुष/प्रथम पुरुष)

(b) Second Person (मध्यम पुरुष)

(c) Third Person (अन्य पुरुष)

(a) First Person - First Person is the person who is speaking. 

(बात करने वाला First Person कहलाता है।) 

जैसे:- I, we.

(b) Second Person - Second Person is the person spoken to.

(जिससे बात की जाए Second Person कहलाता है।) 

जैसे:- you.

(c) Third Person - Third Person is the person spoken about. 

(जिसके बारे में बात की जाए, Third Person कहलाता है।) 

जैसे:- He, She, it, they.

* Case (स्थिति) के आधार पर Personal Pronoun की स्थिति निम्न प्रकार से है :- 

Nominative Case	Possessive Case	Objective Case
I	My	Me
We	Our	Us
You	Your	You
He	His	Him
She	Her	Her
It	Its	It
They	Their	Them

REFLEXIVE PRONOUN

2. Reflexive Pronoun - A Pronoun expressing the effect of the action on the subject itself is called reflexive Pronoun.

(ऐसा Pronoun जो क्रिया का प्रभाव subject पर होता दर्शाए, Reflexive Pronoun कहलाता है।) 

या

जब subject के द्वारा किए कार्य का प्रभाव वापस उसी पर पड़े तो उसे व्यक्त करने के लिए Reflexive Pronoun का प्रयोग किया जाता है।

Example:

She hurts herself.

You help yourself. 

I forgot myself.

He hanged himself.

The dog has hurt itself.

EMPHATIC PRONOUN

3. Emphatic Pronoun - A Pronoun used to lay emphasis is called Emphatic Pronoun.

(ऐसा Pronoun जिसका प्रयोग जोर डालने के लिए किया जाता है Emphatic Pronoun कहलाता है।) 

या

जब subject के द्वारा किए गए कार्य को जोर देकर व्यक्त किया जाए तो उस शब्द को Emphatic Pronoun कहते हैं।

Example:

She herself did it.

I myself will solve this problem. 

You yourself can beat him. 

They themselves have cleaned the room.

We ourselves cooked food.

DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN

4. Demonstrative Pronoun - Demonstrative Pronoun is used to point out the object to which it refers. 

(Demonstrative Pronoun का प्रयोग किसी noun की तरफ संकेत करने के लिए होता है।)

Example : 

That is my cycle. 

This is my pen. 

These are good books.

Those are obedient girls.

INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN

5. Interrogative Pronoun - Interrogative Pronoun is used to ask question. 

(Interrogative Pronoun का प्रयोग प्रश्न पूछने के लिए क्या जाता है।)

Example:

Who is your friend? 

Where are my books? 

Why have you broke under slate?

How did you win the match? 

Which is your house?

INDEFINITE PRONOUN

6. Indefinite Pronoun - the pronoun that refers to persons or things in a general way is called indefinite pronoun.

(जो Pronoun निश्चित व्यक्ति या वस्तु का बोध नहीं कराए Indefinite Pronoun कहलाता है।)

या

जो शब्द sentence मैं अनिश्चित की स्थिति दर्शाए वह Indefinite Pronoun कहलाता है। 

Example:

Some are born great. 

All came in the party. 

Anyone can take the pen. 

Somebody tried to tease him.

Everyone enjoyed the party. 

One should do one's duty.

None can help me.

DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUN

7. Distributive Pronoun - the pronoun used with reference to a number of persons or things one at a time is called Distributive Pronoun.

(Distributive Pronoun का प्रयोग कुछ व्यक्तियों या वस्तुओं में से प्रत्येक के लिए किया जाता है।)

या

जो शब्द sentence में एक या एक से अधिक व्यक्तियों या वस्तुओं का जिक्र करने के लिए प्रयोग किया जाता है वह Distributive Pronoun कहलाता है।

Example:

Neither of you can come.

Either of them has stolen his radio.

None can do it.

Everyone offers will go to school.

Each of the boys enjoyed the party.

उपरोक्त sentences में neither, either, none, each, everyone - Distributive Pronoun है।

RELATIVE PRONOUN

8. Relative Pronoun - the pronoun which is used to refer to some down going before is called relative pronoun. 

(वह Pronoun जो अपने पीछे आए noun से संबंध दर्शाता है - Relative Pronoun कहलाता है।)

Example:

This is the temple where I worship.

This is the boy who is my friend.

He is the man who stole my purse.

Those whom the gods love die young.

This is the pen which I bought.

That is the box which I broke.

उपरोक्त sentences में where, who, whom व which - Relative Pronoun हैं। जो Temple, Man, Pen, box व boy के साथ संबंध दर्शाते है।

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PRONOUN PRACTICE EXERCISE 

A. निम्नलिखित sentences के आगे underlined Pronoun के प्रकार लिखिए - 

He himself did the work. ____________

This is the man who stole my purse. _______

Each of you will come in the party. ________

I saw it myself. __________

They are reading their books. ___________

Each one will bow to the king. ___________

We were sleeping in our room. ____________

He solved the sum himself. ______________

Mamta hurt herself. ________________

Many word of that view. __________

All of us were in danger. _____________

We were sleeping in our room. ____________

(B) निम्नलिखित sentences मैं उपयुक्त Pronoun से खाली स्थान भरो- 

The women burnt __________.

I ___________ saw the Lion.

__________ are  my hats.

____________ is your ball?

____________ of those books is costly.

God helps those __________ help themselves.

Ramesh is _________ friend.

I love _________ father.

He gave ________ my pen.