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Pronoun logo #10101) Any 2) Her 3) Mine 4) Ones 5) She 6) Those 7) You
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Pronoun logo #10101) Closed-class word 2) French word used in English 3) Function word 4) He or she 5) He, she or it 6) He, she, or we 7) Him or her 8) One begins each theme entry 9) Part of speech 10) Poor nun disfigured herself 11) We, he or it 12) Word replacing noun
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Pronoun logo #21000 In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase. It is a particular case of a pro-form. Pronouns have traditionally been regarded as one of the parts of speech, but some modern theorists would not limit them to a single class because of the variety of functions they perform, including that of the personal...
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pronoun logo #22101A word used in place of a noun
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Pronoun logo #21002• (n.) A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.
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pronoun logo #21003(from the article `analytic philosophy`) ...kind of name—in particular, one about which no question can arise whether it names something or not—and he suggested that in English the only ... [11 related articles]
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pronoun

pronoun logo #10444a word that can substitute for a noun phrase (e.g. he can substitute for John).
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Pronoun logo #20972Pro'noun noun [ Prefix pro- + noun : confer French pronom , Latin pronomen . See Noun .] (Gram.) A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I , thou or you , he ,
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Pronoun logo #20492A word used often - but not always - to replace a noun, e.g. Alex, when the teacher came into the classroom, you mean you really didn't see her? See also person.…
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pronoun logo #23038Pronouns such as he and them differ from NOUNS in that they refer to different things on different occasions
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pronoun logo #20400[n] - a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase
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pronoun logo #21009pronoun Related 'name' units: onomato-; -onym.
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Pronoun logo #20403a word that can substitute for a noun or a noun phrase
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pronoun logo #20974 noun a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase
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pronoun logo #21221In grammar, a part of speech that is used in place of a noun, usually to save repetition of the noun. For example: `The people arrived around nine o'clock`. `They` behaved as though we were expecting `them`. Here, `they` and `them` are substitutes for repeating `the people`. `...
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pronoun logo #21199any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I,......
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pronoun logo #23037A grammatical element which refers to a noun previously mentioned; as such it has a deictic or anaphoric function as in The lecturer was here and he spoke to us on a special topic.
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pronoun logo #23665 a function word that is used in place of a noun
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pronoun logo #23665[TEKS ELAR vocabulary] a function word that is used in place of a noun
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