Lesson V: Pronouns

You might be thinking why I created a separate blog-post for 'pronouns'. Well you would soon know why, just read on and be surprised over your limited knowledge of English pronouns. A pronoun is a simply a word or form that substitutes for a noun or noun-phrase, with or without a determiner. The common types of pronouns include:

• Personal pronoun (or Subject pronoun): These tell about an entity of a specific grammatical person: first person (I, we, me, etc.), second person (you, you both, you all, etc.) or third person (he, she, they, etc.)
  Subject pronouns: These signify a specific person or people in a sentence. As is in the example: I'll tell you a story about me, Satyaa & Dhananjay. I loved her and all of them knew it but she behaved in a discouraging way towards me and encouraged Dhananjay instead. That was creating differences between me and him and one day he & I came close to a fist fight because of that. But sometime later, after that encounter had passed, Dhananjay & me decided that the girl must be taught a lesson that what she was doing to us wasn't a joke at all.
  Second person formal & informal pronouns: Second person informal pronouns are no different from the usual, but the (now outdated) second person formal pronouns in English are just like the आदरणीय words like 'आप' in Hindi and the second person formal pronoun in English is considered archaic and lost its status as a part of active language. The word that spares much explanation is the example from archaic English language called thou and it really sounds funnily respectful. Try talking in daily life putting 'thou' in place of 'you'.
  Intensive reflexive pronouns: These pronouns are used in sentences where stress has to be laid upon the subject itself, explaining or saying something. It might be observed & applied across all language persons. Some examples will better explain than the definition itself:
  First person intensive reflexive: I myself am going to convey its importance to the students.
  Second person intensive reflexive: You yourself will be responsible if something went wrong.
  Third person intensive reflexive: They themselves don't want to make progress.
• Object pronoun: These tell about the entity of a specific non-human object in a sentence. Depending on the type of object, these are classified as:
  Living object pronouns: Most animals, fishes, microorganisms, plants and similar living organisms come under the definition of a living object. Exceptions are involved when these have any gender-designated names for identification; i.e., when they are pets. E.g. The dog went back to its owner when it heard its name being called. A small girl who was holding an apparently recently broken latch complained to her mother, "Tiger has become rebellious of late, he keeps breaking the latch to follow cats!"
  In plural, the living object pronouns will be similar to human pronoun.
  
  Non-living object pronouns: For singular and multiple non-living objects, the pronoun used are 'it', 'them', 'they' & 'this' or 'these', 'those' & 'that'. The bold words depict pronouns used for multiple things. Words 'this, them, these, those, that, they' all are used in a similar manner for animals including Homo Sapiens or humans. It may only be used for unknown human babies/other organism's offspring.