1. Personal Pronouns: These refer to specific people or things. They change based on person (first, second, third), number (singular, plural), and gender (masculine, feminine, neutral).
* First Person: I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours
* Second Person: You, your, yours
* Third Person: He, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs
2. Possessive Pronouns: These show ownership or possession.
* First Person: Mine, ours
* Second Person: Yours
* Third Person: His, hers, its, theirs
3. Reflexive Pronouns: These refer back to the subject of the sentence. They end in "-self" or "-selves".
* First Person: Myself, ourselves
* Second Person: Yourself, yourselves
* Third Person: Himself, herself, itself, themselves
4. Intensive Pronouns: These emphasize the noun or pronoun they refer to. They have the same form as reflexive pronouns, but are used differently.
* First Person: Myself, ourselves
* Second Person: Yourself, yourselves
* Third Person: Himself, herself, itself, themselves
5. Demonstrative Pronouns: These point out specific people or things.
* Singular: This, that
* Plural: These, those
6. Interrogative Pronouns: These are used to ask questions.
* Who: refers to people
* Whom: refers to the object of a verb or preposition
* Whose: refers to possession
* What: refers to things
* Which: refers to things from a limited group
7. Relative Pronouns: These connect a dependent clause to an independent clause.
* Who: refers to people
* Whom: refers to the object of a verb or preposition
* Whose: refers to possession
* Which: refers to things
* That: can refer to people or things
8. Indefinite Pronouns: These refer to people or things in a general way.
* Singular: Anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, somebody, someone, something
* Plural: Both, few, many, several
* Singular or Plural: All, any, more, most, none, some
9. Reciprocal Pronouns: These refer to a mutual action or relationship.
* Each other: refers to two people or things
* One another: refers to more than two people or things
While some may categorize pronouns in slightly different ways, these nine types cover the most common uses of pronouns in the English language.