Parts of Speech - Pronouns
What is a Pronoun? Definition of Pronoun: A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun (single word) or replaces anything functioning as a noun (noun clause , noun phrase) . Pronouns do the same job of nouns in the sentence. I have a car . It is white. It is 2021 model. (We used "it" in the second and third sentence to avoid repeating the noun "car".) My daughter's cat's name is " Candy ". She is white and she keeps playing all day long. (We used "she" to replace "My daughter's cat".) What are Antecedents of Pronouns? She likes blue color more than red . --> Who is She ? What if we did not mention the noun first? If we started with the pronoun, we will not know what does this pronoun refer to, right? Most of the time, yes, that's why we need to start with nouns and we call them Antecedents . Sometimes we don't need to start with nouns (if you start by "I", then people will know that you...