I met her at the station. (Julia is the antecedent of her) When they saw us, the lions began roaring (the lions is the antecedent of they; as it comes after the pronoun it may be called a postcedent) Other personal pronouns in some circumstances: Terry and I were hoping no one would find us. (Terry and I is the antecedent of us) You and Alice can come if you like. (you and Alice is the antecedent of the second – plural – you) Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns: Jack hurt himself. (Jack is the antecedent of himself) We were teasing each other. (we is the antecedent of each other) Relative pronouns: The woman who looked at you is my sister. (the woman is the antecedent of who) Some other types, such as indefinite pronouns, are usually used without antecedents. Relative pronouns are used without antecedents in free relative clauses. Even third-person personal pronouns are sometimes used without antecedents ("unprecursed") – this applies to special uses such as dummy pronouns and generic they, as well as cases where the referent is implied by the context. English pronouns English personal pronouns have a number of different syntactic contexts (Subject, Object, Possessive, Reflexive) and many features: person (1st, 2nd, 3rd); number (singular, plural); gender (masculine, feminine, neuter or inanimate, epicene) English also has other pronoun types, including demonstrative, relative, indefinite, and interrogative pronouns: Personal and possessive Personal Personal pronouns may be classified by person, number, gender and case. English has three persons (first, second and third) and two numbers (singular and plural); in the third person singular there are also distinct pronoun forms for male, female and neuter gender. Principal forms are shown in the adjacent table. English personal pronouns have two cases, subject and object. Subject pronouns are used in subject position (I like to eat chips, but she does not). Object pronouns are used for the object of a verb or preposition (John likes me but not her). Other distinct forms found in some languages include: Second person informal and formal pronouns (the T–V distinction), like tu and vous in French. Formal second person pronouns can also signify plurality in many languages. There is no such distinction in standard modern English, though Elizabethan English marked the distinction with thou (singular informal) and you (plural or singular formal). Some dialects of English have developed informal plural second person pronouns, for instance, y'all