THE TRIBES OF WORDS

1. PERSONAL PRONOUNS This group consists of words which stand in place of the name of persons or a thing. The are: I, thou, he, she, it, one, we, you, they. (Nominative case- when the word is the subject.) Me, thee, him, her, it, one, us, you, them.(Accusative case-when the word is the object.) 2. RELATIVE PRONOUNS These pronouns relate an adjective or describing clause to the noun or pronoun which it describes. They are: which,Who, whom, that, what. Example: This is the boy to whom i lent my bicycle. Care should be taken not to confuse the relative pronoun 'that' with the conjuction 'that'. The relative pronoun can be replaced by the word 'which' and the conjuction cannot. Examples: This is the book that i borrowed from you. (relative pronoun) I told him that i had borrowed the book from you. (conjuction). It will be found, quite often, that a word can be one part of speech in one sentence and become another part of speech im another sentence. It is the way in which a word is used that determines what part of speech it is. There are numerous pronous which i will not be able to express what their meanings are, like: POSSESIVE PRONOUNS E.g: I------mine we------ours thee-thine you-----yours he----his they----theirs she--hers DEMOSTRATIVE PRONOUNS E.g: this, that, these, and those. INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS E.g: who, whom, which, what. REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS E.g: myself, yourself, himself, herself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves. and DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUNS E.g: each, all, many, few, either.

THE TRIBES OF WORDS

Take a sentence like, "Mary Brown was invited to a party at Mr. Jones's house to celebrate the birthday of Mr. Jones's daughter, Jane. Jane had just left school." Obviously the constant repitition of names can be very confusing and so we subtitute a pronoun which stands in place of the name.
In the case of thn above sentence, pronouns would be used like this: "I was invited to a party at Mr. Jones's house to celebrate the birthday of his daughter Jane, who had just left school."
Pronouns can be subdivided into many smaller groups, each with its own particular function.