Read the following sentence and see if you can pick out the pronoun and the antecedent. In the previous sentence, Catlin is the antecedent because the word she is a pronoun which replaces the noun, Catlin. You should be familiar with pronouns because one rarely speaks or writes without using them. Some pronouns include words such as you, we, and them. The following is a list of all the categories of pronouns.
Personal pronouns refer to specific persons or things.
Reflexive pronouns refer to the subject of the sentence or clause in which they appear. The seals sunned themselves on the warm rocks. Intensive pronouns do not refer to specific nouns, although they may refer to identifiable persons or things. We gave them everything we had. Demonstrative pronouns identify or point to specific nouns.