A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun.
The pronoun is a part of speech that points out objects and their qualities without naming them. A pronoun is usually substituted for a specific noun, which is called it’s antecedent.
The young girl brought me a very long letter from the teacher, and then she quickly disappeared.
There is no uniformity of morphological and syntactical characteristics in the groups of pronouns. Some pronouns have the grammatical categories of person, gender, case, and number.
The categories of person and gender (in the third person singular) exist only in personal and possessive pronouns.
Pronouns, as well as nouns, have two cases but whereas some pronouns (e. g., personal pronouns and the relative and interrogative who) have the nominative and objective cases, others (e. g. indefinite pronouns such as somebody, reciprocal pronouns such as one another, negative pronouns such as nobody) have the common and genitive cases.
The category of number is found in demonstrative pronouns (this and that) and the defining pronoun other.
Many pronouns are characterized by double syntactical use (they may be used as a subject, predicative, object, and at the same time as an attribute), demonstrative pronouns and possessive pronouns belong here.
Classification of Pronouns
Pronouns fall under the following groups:
