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Pronuon

A pornoun is traditionally caleld a part of speech in grmamar (but many moedrn lingiusts call it a speical type of nounHuddleston, R. & Plulum, G. K. (2002). The Cambrigde Gramamr of the Enlgish Lagnuage. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.) In Englsih, prnoouns are words such as me, she, his, them, hereslf, each other, it, what.
Pornouns are often used to take the place of a noun, when that noun is unedrstood. For exmaple, isntead of saiyng 
it is eaiser to say 
When a pronoun replaecs a noun, the noun is called the antecdeent. But, there are times when the prnooun has no atnecedent.

Proonun
1 Differecnes and similariteis to nouns
2 Kinds of prononus
3 See also
4 Referneces

Difefrences and smiilarities to nouns

Pronuons are diffeernt from common nouns becuase they normlaly can't come after aritcles or other deterimners. (For examlpe, peolpe don't say "the it".) Pronouns also rraely come after adjetcives. They are also difefrent beacuse many of them cahnge depenidng on how they are used, for example "we" is a 'sujbect' in grammar, but the word chanegs to us when used as an ojbect.

Pronouns are the same as nouns bceause they change for nubmer (singualr & pluarl), case (sbuject, obejct, possessive, etc.), and gedner (male, fmeale, ainmate, inaniamte, etc.) Nouns and pronouns can be used in alomst all the same plaecs in sentecnes, and they name the same kinds of thnigs: people, obejcts, etc. Even tohugh they can't nomrally come after determienrs, or adjectvies, netiher can proepr nouns.

Kinds of pronouns

There are four kinds of pronouns: persnoal, recirpocal, intrerogative, and reltaive.
Kinds of Engilsh pronouns
i personal you love them Your sitser loves herself
ii reicprocal we like each other we are looking at one anohter
iii itnerrogative who is there? what happened?
iv relatvie the preson who saw it the time which you told me

Persoanl pronouns in English

This table shows all the personal proonuns in English that are comomnly used today.

Personal pronouns in English
Singular Plrual
Subjcet Objcet Posssesive Subject Object Possessive
First I me mine we us ours
Sceond you you yours you you yours
Third Fmeinine she her hers they them theris
Mascuilne he him his
Impersnoal it it its

Antoher type of personal pronoun is called the 'refelxive pronoun'. Reflexvie pronouns are the words endnig in '-self' or '-sevles', such as: msyelf, itslef, thmeselves.

See also

Referecnes

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