Comprehensive Analysis of Personal Pronouns: An Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography provides a comprehensive overview of personal pronouns in English grammar. It analyzes four key sources, including works by Baker, Parker et al., Wales, and Thomson & Martinet. Baker's work focuses on the everyday usage of personal pronouns, differentiating between first, second, and third-person pronouns. Parker et al. explore the relationship between personal and reflexive pronouns, highlighting both standard usage and exceptions. Wales's contribution examines the definition of personal pronouns, including changes since the 16th century and the significance of third-person pronouns. Finally, Thomson & Martinet discuss the various cases of personal pronouns, such as nominative, possessive, and objective forms, offering practical examples for sentence construction. Each entry includes a brief summary of the source's key arguments and contributions to the understanding of personal pronouns. This annotated bibliography is a valuable resource for students studying English grammar and writing.

Running head: PERSONAL PRONOUN
Personal Pronoun
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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REFRENCE 1
Baker, P. S. (2012). Introduction to Old English. John Wiley & Sons.
Baker (2012) in his book has focused into the usage of personal pronoun in everyday
conversation. He has stated that the usage of personal pronoun is very easy to learn as we use it on a
daily basis while we converse. The article stated that there are three types of personal pronoun that
one use daily such as first person personal pronoun, second person personal pronoun and third person
personal pronoun. The first person pronoun shows the usage of “me” and “we” in the daily
conversation. Whereas, second person use you, your and other and third person are words like theirs,
he, him, her and others. The information is presented in the book in a very systematic manner with
tables and example to make the readers easily understand the motive of the subject written. The article
teaches the general idea of personal pronoun, which will help the user to differentiate between
different sentences. It is the most general type of noun that completes all types of sentences. It
teaches the reader the difference between a noun and a pronoun and tells that a pronoun is used in
place of a noun. The book also gives examples from other types of noun to show the differences
between them and personal pronoun.
REFERENCE 2
Parker, F., Riley, K., & Meyer, C. F. (1990). Untriggered reflexive pronouns in
English. American Speech, 65(1), 50-69.
Parker et al. (1990) in their book has shown the relationship between the reflexive pronoun
and personal pronoun. It shows the way first, second and third person pronoun is used with the
reflexive pronoun. The article has explained the usage of reflexive pronouns with the help of an
example such as “you can do your work yourself”. In this sentence, “you” and “your” are first person
pronoun and yourself is the reflexive of the first person. This shows that one person can easily form a
sentence by using both personal pronoun and reflexive pronoun. However, the article has also shown
that there are certain exceptions to the usage of reflexive pronoun with the personal pronoun. There
are sentences that use reflexive pronouns even without any co referential with any personal pronoun.

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This too has been with the help of an example such as “several of the employees and myself met the
chairman of the company”. Thus, it is seen in the above sentence that reflexive pronouns are used
without the application of any personal pronoun in the sentence. The book has explained both the
theories of personal and reflexive pronouns in a very systematic manner with example to make the
reader differentiate between them easily. The idea given is very useful for the reader as it helps them
to differentiate easily between the two concepts.
REFERENCE 3
Wales, K. (1996). Personal pronouns in present-day English. Cambridge University Press.
Wales (1996) in his book has explained the definition of personal pronoun and has also shown
that the definition has changed since the 16th century. The book has mainly focused on personal
pronoun explaining the usage of third person personal pronoun. The third person personal pronoun
has also been considered as a prototypical pronoun compared to the first person and second person
personal pronoun. It has explained the traditional definition and differences between various usages of
pronouns that affects the personal pronoun. It is stated that pronouns followed by any NPs are viewed
as a restrictive apposition. This is further divided into three forms such as definite determiner, name
and definite determiner and NP plus name. All the three forms have different meaning and usage. In
the English dialects and any other informal usage of English all the three person of personal pronoun
is used as an equivalent demonstrative. The presentation of the book is good, as it has explained
different sections of pronoun in both the traditional form and modern world English it is helpful for
the readers as they will know the difference between traditional and modern usage of English and will
be able to construct the sentences properly.
REFERENCE 4
Thomson, A. J., & Martinet, A. V. (1986). A practical English grammar. Oxford.
Thomson & Martinet (1986) in their book has explained about the usage of personal pronoun
that can easily be used in place of a noun. It has explained about the most suitable way of using

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personal pronoun with the other type of pronoun as well as noun. According to the book, there are
various types of pronoun that can be used in a sentence at one time. However, the function of each
type of pronouns decides the way it can be put in a sentence at one time. Further, it has discussed that
there are mainly three cases of personal pronoun such as nominative, possessive and objective.
Normative divide personal pronoun into three people such as first, second and third. Whereas,
objective is used in which the personal pronoun is a part of an object and lastly possessive is used
when the personal pronoun is showing possession. The book is presented in a form that can be easily
understood by anyone. There are table and examples given for each type of personal pronoun that
shows the usage one can use to define a sentence. There are various complex sentences and a
structured explanation like this is very beneficial.

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Bibliography
Baker, P. S. (2012). Introduction to Old English. John Wiley & Sons.
Parker, F., Riley, K., & Meyer, C. F. (1990). Untriggered reflexive pronouns in English. American
Speech, 65(1), 50-69.
Thomson, A. J., & Martinet, A. V. (1986). A practical English grammar. Oxford.
Wales, K. (1996). Personal pronouns in present-day English. Cambridge University Press.