Personal Pronouns

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This lesson explores the three kinds of personal pronouns.

A personal pronoun takes the place of a noun.

Pronouns are used to make your writing sound more natural. Personal pronouns name the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person, place, or thing spoken about.

Look back at the photo above to explore using personal pronouns more closely.

• What pronouns could you use to describe the people you see?
• Did you say he, she, they, us, you, or it?
• Can you think of any more?

The first-person pronouns that name the speaker are I, me, we, and us.

You use these pronouns instead of your name. You would also use these pronouns when speaking about yourself with a group.

• I play basketball.
• Joe played basketball with me.
• Our basketball team won the game.

Second-person pronouns refer to the person spoken to. The personal pronoun that names the person spoken to is you.

• Did you score in the game last week?

Third-person personal pronouns refer to the person spoken about in a sentence. These pronouns include he, she, it, he, her, and them.

• He scored the first run in the game.

Continue to the Got It? section to practice using personal pronouns.