Pronouns - Definition, Overview, and Lists of Examples

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Table of Contents

1. Pronouns - Words Substituting for Words
2. Seven Varieties of Pronouns
3. 1. Personal Pronouns
4. Person - Three People
5. Number - Singular or Plural
6. Case - Subjective, Objective, Possessive
7. Gender - Masculine, Feminine, Neuter
8. Table of Personal Pronouns
9. Your and Its
10. Antecedents - Placement of Pronouns
11. Antecedents - Number and Gender
12. Sexist Writing
13. Sexism - Proposed Solution
14. Sexism - Other Solutions
15. 2. Reflexive Pronouns - The self Words
16. 2. Intensive Pronouns - The self Words
17. 3. Indefinite Pronouns
1. They-Their-Them
2. None
3. Each
18. 4. Demonstrative Pronouns
19. 5. Relative Pronouns
20. Whose and Of Which
21. Who, Whom, Whose
22. That Can Refer to People
23. That vs. Which
24. 6. Interrogative Pronouns
25. 7. Reciprocal Pronouns
26. Fear of Using Pronouns
27. A Summary of Pronouns