The following list of pronouns gives you a description of the various types of pronouns along with examples for each type.
These are pronouns that refer mostly to human beings. However, the word 'it' does not refer to human beings, but is a Personal Pronoun.
So, we have a more grammatical way of defining Personal Pronouns so that we can include the hapless it in the Personal Pronoun family.
A Personal Pronoun is a pronoun which belongs to any of the three grammatical persons.
The list of pronouns which belong to this group are: I, we, you, he, she, it, and they.
Just remember that these three so-called "types" are not really different types.
They are just different Case forms of one type of pronoun, i.e. Personal Pronouns.
There are two sub-types of these pronouns: Reflexive pronouns and Intensive pronouns. These two sub-types have the same forms, but different functions.
According to form, we can call these pronouns Compound Personal Pronouns.
A list of pronouns of this kind are:
myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves.
Depending on the function, we divide the Compound Personals into the two types we mentioned.
These pronouns function as grammatical objects or complements which mirror the subject, as in...
These pronouns act as appositives of nouns or pronouns for the sake of emphasis, as in the examples below...
These pronouns point out someone or something. They are identical in form to Demonstrative Adjectives/Determiners.
The difference is that...
Here are two examples to show the difference:
More examples of Demonstrative Pronouns:
These pronouns do stand for some person or thing, but we don't know for exactly whom.
When we say, "Somebody stole my watch," we don't know to whom the word somebody refers to. The word somebody is an Indefinite Pronoun.
A list of pronouns of this type are...
These pronouns refer to individual elements in a group or a pair, one individual at a time.
Here's a list of pronouns of this type...
These pronouns are found in pairs. They are really a subject-object pair compressed. We'll find this if we expand the sentence in which they are present, as in the first example below.
When one gives, the other member of the pair also gives in return. That's what we mean by reciprocity...hence Reciprocal Pronouns.
These pronouns are very important words in the language. A Relative Pronoun performs two functions:
So, besides being a noun-substitute, it performs a function similar to that of a subordinating conjunction.
Here's a list of pronouns that belong to this important category...
You also have Compound Relative Pronouns.
They are: whoever, whatever, whichever, whosoever, whatsoever, and whichsoever.
Using any of the last three is old-fashioned.
These look like Relative Pronouns, but have a different function. We use them for asking questions. There are three of them:
From this list of pronouns, I can tell you, that you will need more time to study Personal Pronouns and Relative Pronouns, than any other. Their study involves dealing with more language elements than the others.