Pronoun

Pronoun adalah kata ganti yang digunakan untuk mengganti kata benda.

Fungsi Pronoun terbagi menjadi 10, yaitu:

1. Personal Pronoun → kata ganti perorangan.

SUBJECT	OBJECT
I	Me
You	You
They	Them
We	Us
He	His
She	Her
It	It

      ex. I/me go to school.   

           Risky meets he/him. 
           They/he are my friends.

2. Possesive Pronoun → kata ganti kepemilikan.

POSSESIVE ADJECTIVE	POSSESIVE PRONOUN
my	mine
your	yours
their	their
our	ours
his	his
her	hers
its

Possesive adjective diikutkan dengan noun, sedangkan untuk possesive pronoun tidak diikutkan noun. ex. - this book is my/mine. - your/yours book was missing.

3. Refiexive Pronoun → kata ganti yang menceritakan dirinya sendiri.
    ex. myself
          yourself/yourselves
          themselves
          ourselves
          himself
          herself
          itself

Fungsi reflexive pronoun sebagai object dan sebagai adverb.

Object of verb   ex. I love myself.	Adverb for emphasize   ex. I clean the room myself.
Object of preposition   ex. Alfi is afraid of herself.	Adverb for alone   ex. Amri goes to school by himself.

4. Demonstrative Pronoun → kata ganti yang digunakan sebagai kata tunjuk.
    ini, This → digunakan apabila verb nya singular.
    itu, That → digunakan apabila verb nya singular.
    ini, These → digunakan apabila verb nya plural.
    itu, Those → digunakan apabila verb nya plural.

    ex. This/These are mine.    
         That was/were yours. 

5. Reciprocal Pronoun → kata ganti yang menunjukkan makna saling.
    Each other, untuk 2 orang/benda.
    One another, untuk >2 orang/benda.

    ex. Romeo and Juliet love each other.      
         They know one another.

6. Indefinite Pronoun → kata ganti yang tidak terdefinisi.   

		-body	-one	-thing
+	some	somebody	someone	something
-?	any	anybody	anyone	anything
+	every	everybody	everyone	everything
-?	no	nobody	no one	nothing

    ex. (+) Everyone is in the class
          (-)  Anyone is not in the class
          (?) Is anyone in the class?

7. Interrogative Pronoun → kata ganti dalam kalimat tanya.
    Who, untuk person.
    Whom, untuk person.
    What, untuk non person.
    Which, untuk non person.
    ex. Who reads this book?
          Whom do you love?
          What runs in the jungle?
          Which is your bag?

8. Relative Pronoun → kata ganti dalam klausa.
    Who → menggantikan Subject berbentuk orang.
    Whom → menggantikan Object berbentuk orang.
    Which → menggantikan Subject dan Object benda.
    That → menggantikan semuanya (who, whom, which).
    ex. I met a girl last night
         She was sitting in font of her house
         *I met girl last night who was sitting in front of her house
         The boy reads a book
         It was bought by me
        *The boy reads a book which was bought by me

9. Expletive Pronoun → kata ganti pada subject semu
    ex. It is summer
         It is 7 o'clock
         There is a student

10. Pronoun Lainnya (another, other, the other, the others)

PRONOUN	ADJECTIVE + NOUN	NOTE
another	another + noun singular	unspecific
other	other + noun singular	unspecific
the other	the other + noun plural	specific
the others	the others + noun plural	specific

  ex. I have 3 pets one is cat the others is/are eagles.
       I have 3 pets two are birds the other is/are tiger.
       I have many friends another is from England others are from Japan others are from USA.