Pronouns(Rules)

 1) In subjective case subjective pronouns should be used and in objective case objective pronouns should be used.

       Ex:-  You and I are going to market. (Subjective case, so, I am using you and I)

              He is talking with you and me. (Objective case, So, I am using you and me)

 2) The order of pronouns differs from positive to negative actions.

  To express a negative action. The order follows:
I, you and peter (1^st person, 2nd person and 3^rd person)

       I, you and she

      We, you and they

To express a positive action, the order follows
 You, Peter and I (2^nd person, 3^rd person and 1^st person)

     You, he and we

                You, they and I

3) Reflexive pronoun should be used after the following verbs.

Apply, acquit, absent, assert, avail, enjoy, express, exert, present, pride, and resign.

Ex:- we enjoyed ourselves at the party.

      She absented herself from the workshop.

     They pride themselves on their property.

4) Reflexive pronouns should not be used after the following verbs.

Keep, conceal, qualify, spread, stay, rest

 Ex:- she stayed herself calm. (Wrong)

        She stayed calm.  (Right)

        I stayed myself away from the class. (Wrong)

        I stayed away from the class. (Right)

5) The following indefinite pronouns are always singular. Hence, singular verb should be added after them.

Everyone, everybody, someone, somebody, no one, nobody, anyone, anybody

Ex:- everyone are coming to the party. (Wrong)

      Everyone is coming to the party. (Right)

      Nobody were present in the class. (Wrong)

      Nobody was present in the class. (Right)   

6) Objective pronoun is used after ‘Let’.

Ex:- let me go.

     Let her speak.

     Let them come.

7) “One” should be followed by “one’s” whereas “everyone/body, anyone/body,  each” should be followed by “his”

     
      Ex:- one should respect one’s parents.

              Each should respect his parents.

              Everyone/body should respect his parents.

8) After the phrase “It is, it was”, subjective pronoun is used.

  Ex:- it was they who helped me.

        It is she who sends messages.

9)  “Each other” ---- for two

 “One another” ----- for more than two.

 Ex:- Peter and John are talking to each other. (peter & John only two)

       All the students are talking to one another. (all students mean more than   two here)

10)  After the following words, ‘same’, ‘any’, ‘none’, ’nothing’, and (the)’only’. We should use “that” instead of  ‘who’ or  ‘which’.

     Ex:- He is the same boy who I have seen. (Wrong)

            He is the same boy that I have seen. (Right)

            Man is the only being who can talk. (Wrong)

            Man is the only being that can talk. (Right)