Other Pronoun Types

Indefinite pronouns have no clear antecedent and refer to an unspecified person or thing. The singular and plural forms are listed below.

Plural Indefinite Pronouns

Examples:
Everyone participated in the debate, but some continued to argue long after the event.
Many of the flood victims were left homeless, but only one was injured.

Demonstrative pronouns (this, that, these, those) point to the nouns to which they refer.

Example:
Is anyone using this pen?

Relative pronouns include who, whom, whose, whoever, whomever, that and which. Who and whoever are the subjective case pronouns; whom, whomever are the objective case pronouns, and whose is the possessive case pronoun. Relative pronouns start dependent clauses which refer to something previously mentioned in the sentence. Use who, whom or whose to refer to people and which to refer to things. That may refer to either.

Examples:
Leon, who had been been up studying all night, fell asleep during the exam.
Then he suddenly remembered the answer that had eluded him.

Interrogative pronouns include the same pronouns and cases as relative pronouns; however, instead of introducing dependent clauses, the interrogative pronoun is used to ask questions.

Examples:
Who was the first man on the moon?
To whom am I speaking?

Reflexive pronouns end in either -self or -selves and reflect back to the subject of the sentence. The reflexive pronoun is used to show that the subject (doer) and the object (receiver) of an action are one and the same. They include myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, oneself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves..

Examples:
I asked myself if it was really worth the risk.
The children were proud of themselves.

Intensive pronouns and reflexive pronouns are the same, but instead of refering back to their antecedents, intensive pronouns show emphasis or intensify their antecedents.

Examples:
I myself prefer Hellman's mayonaisse.
Mario did it himself.