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When in doubt, substitute he or him for the relative pronoun to see which sounds correct to you: Who is a subject pronoun, which means it can be the subject of a sentence: Who is riding the bike this morning? Whom is an object pronoun, which means it is the direct or indirect object of the verb or a preposition: For whom did you bring flowers today? While we often ignore whom in spoken speech, we do not in written English.

Relative pronouns include that, which, who, whom, whoever, whomever, whose, and what.

Her chair has violet flowers stitched across the surface.

Possessive pronouns replace possessive nouns ( his car instead of Luke’s car), and possessive pronouns never take apostrophes.

Possessive pronouns include my, mine, our, ours, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, their, theirs, and whose.

I decided to sew the button on myself rather than ask him to do it for me.

Reflexive pronouns can never replace the subject of a sentence.

Reflexive pronouns include myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, and themselves.

Most indefinite pronouns require a singular verb: anyone, no one, someone, everyone, anybody, nobody, somebody, everybody, anything, nothing, something, everything, either, another, each, one, and any.

( she = subject pronoun it = object pronoun) She decided to write it down before she could forget.An object pronoun is the object of the verb, which means the action happens to the pronoun rather than by the pronoun.A subject pronoun includes I, we, you, he, she, and they, and will often be the main subject of the sentence.Whenever Jamie arrives in the classroom, she smiles broadly and plops her books in a pile at one of the front-row desks.For example, in the sentence The dog ate his food, dog is the antecedent of the pronoun his. The noun that a pronoun replaces is called the antecedent of the pronoun.“More than your background, education, title, or credentials, your ability to communicate clearly, thoughtfully, and without careless errors tells me how much you respect your work, your ideas, and your peers.” Tiffany Butler, Principal, Whole Brain Creative Rules to Remember: Conjunction = links different parts of a sentence together.Preposition = shows relationship between a noun and another word.

5 The eight parts of speech in the English language determine how a word is functioning in a sentence both in terms of the simple math and in terms of the word’s meaning.