(1) Pronouns have
the same number, gender and person as that of their antecedent:
Shola is a good girl.
She respects her elders.
(2) “It” is used for
lifeless things, for animals, and for a baby:
He likes his cat
and takes good care of it.
(3) When two singular
pronouns are joined by ‘and’ and refer to the same thing, the pronoun will be
singular:
The peon and
attendant is absent from his duty.
(4) Sometimes a
pronoun refers to more than one noun or pronoun of different persons, in this
case, the order will be as follows:
You, he and I
or He and I
The first
person will come in the end. But in admitting a fault, we use the first person
first, then, the third, and the second person last of all.
I, he and you
are at fault.
(5) The complement
of the verb ‘to be’ should be in the Nominative case:
It is I.
If I were he, I
would not do it.
(6) In the sentence
beginning with ‘let’, a pronoun in the objective case is used:
Let us go
there.
Let me help
you.
(7) The pronouns
following ‘than’ or ‘as’ can be in the Objective as well as the Nominative
case, depending upon the meaning of the sentence:
I love you more
than he.
(This means
more than he-a third person- loves you.)
I love you more
than him.
(This means
more than I love the other person.)
(8) ‘Who’ is used
for persons while ‘which’ is used for animals and lifeless objects; that can be
used for both:
I am looking
for the boy who has taken my book.
This is the
dress which I like the most.
(9) The pronoun
‘one’ must be followed by ‘one’s’:
Wrong: One must
keep his word.
Right: One must
keep one’s word.
(1O) A relative
pronoun should be placed near its antecedent:
Wrong: I have
read Shakespeare’s plays who was a great dramatist.
Right: I have
read the plays of Shakespeare who was a great dramatist.
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