Pronouns Word Search
Free Pronouns word search. We picked 12 themed words — the terms and ideas of a school subject — and laid them out on a 15×15 grid. Drag across the letters to find every word on the list.
Words to find: THEY, THEM, THEIRS, HERS, OURS, ITSELF, HIMSELF, WHOSE, WHOM, ANYONE, EVERYONE, NOBODY.
Found words stay highlighted, so the grid gets easier to read as you go and the final few tend to fall quickly.
Pronouns word list, defined
- THEY /ðeɪ/ · pronoun
- They is the third-person plural personal pronoun, used to refer to people or things already mentioned or understood. In contemporary English, it can also be used as a singular pronoun for one person whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or not specified. Related: them, those, those people.
- THEM /ðɛm/, often reduced to /ðəm/ when unstressed · pronoun
- The object form of the third-person plural pronoun “they,” used to refer to people, animals, or things already mentioned or understood. It may also stand independently to mean “those people” or “those things.” Related: they, those, those people, those things.
- THEIRS /ðɛərz/ (British); /ðɛrz/ (US) · possessive pronoun
- A possessive pronoun used to indicate that something belongs to them, especially when the relevant noun is understood or has already been mentioned. It can stand alone or be used after “of,” as in “a friend of theirs.”
- HERS /hɜːrz/ · possessive pronoun
- A possessive pronoun used to indicate that something belongs to or is associated with a female person previously mentioned. It can also refer to a female person herself in emphatic contexts.
- OURS /aʊrz/ · pronoun
- A possessive pronoun used to indicate possession or association, especially when the possessor is a group of people including the speaker. It can also mean something considered to belong to or be associated with the speaker and others. Related: our, mine, yours, theirs.
- ITSELF /ɪtˈsɛlf/ · pronoun
- A reflexive and intensive pronoun used to refer to the subject, especially a thing or animal that performs an action upon itself. It can also be used for emphasis, meaning “in its own right” or “personally.”
- HIMSELF /hɪmˈsɛlf/ · pronoun
- A third-person masculine reflexive and intensive pronoun, used to refer back to a male subject or to emphasize a male person or action.
- WHOSE /huːz/ · interrogative determiner and relative pronoun
- Whose asks which person or thing something belongs to, is associated with, or is responsible for. It can also introduce a relative clause identifying the possessor or person concerned, as in “the author whose novels became famous.”
- WHOM /huːm/ · pronoun
- Whom is the object form of the pronoun who, used after a verb or preposition, especially in formal or traditional contexts. It can also function as a relative pronoun referring to a person, as in “the author whom I admire.” Related: who, which person, the person.
- ANYONE /ˈɛniwʌn/ · pronoun
- An indefinite pronoun referring to any person at all, without specifying or limiting who; used in questions, negatives, and statements where the identity of the person is unimportant. Related: anybody, whoever, a person.
- EVERYONE /ˈɛvriwʌn/ · pronoun
- Every person; all people in a group or in the world, considered individually or collectively. Related: everybody, all, each person, the whole world.
- NOBODY /ˈnoʊbədi/ (US); /ˈnəʊbədi/ (UK) · Pronoun
- Nobody means no person or no one, especially when referring to the absence of people. As a noun, it can mean a person who is considered unimportant or insignificant. Related: no one, not a soul, no person, not a single person.
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