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pronouns

pro·noun
P p

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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [proh-noun]
    • /ˈproʊˌnaʊn/
    • /ˈprəʊ.naʊn/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [proh-noun]
    • /ˈproʊˌnaʊn/

Definition of pronouns word

  • noun pronouns any 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, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective. 1
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Origin of pronouns

First appearance:

before 1520
One of the 28% oldest English words
1520-30; < Middle French pronom < Latin prōnōmen (stem prōnōmin-). See pro-1, noun

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Parts of speech for Pronouns

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Pronouns

pronouns popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

pronouns usage trend in Literature

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Related words

  • adjective

    An adjective is a word such as 'big', 'dead', or 'financial' that describes a person or thing, or gives extra information about them. Adjectives usually come before nouns or after link verbs.

  • than

    in relation to; by comparison with (usually followed by a pronoun in the objective case): He is a person than whom I can imagine no one more courteous.

  • each

    every one of two or more considered individually or one by one: each stone in a building; a hallway with a door at each end.

  • myself

    There is no disagreement over the use of myself and other -self forms when they are used intensively (I myself cannot agree) or reflexively (He introduced himself proudly). Questions are raised, however, when the -self forms are used instead of the personal pronouns (I, me, etc.) as subjects, objects, or complements.  Myself occurs only rarely as a single subject in place of I:  Myself was the one who called.  The recorded instances of such use are mainly poetic or literary. It is also uncommon as a simple object in place of me:  Since the letter was addressed to myself, I opened it.  As part of a compound subject, object, or complement, myself and to a lesser extent the other -self forms are common in informal speech and personal writing, somewhat less common in more formal speech and writing:  The manager and myself completed the arrangements. Many came to welcome my husband and myself back to Washington.   Myself and other -self forms are also used, alone or with other nouns or pronouns, in constructions after as, than, or but in all varieties of speech and writing:  The captain has far more experience than myself in such matters. Orders have arrived for everyone but the orderlies and yourself.   There is ample precedent, going as far back as Chaucer and running through the whole range of British and American literature and other serious formal writing, for all these uses. Many usage guides, however, state that to use myself in any construction in which I or me could be used instead (as My daughter and myself play the flute instead of My daughter and I, or a gift for my husband and myself instead of for my husband and me) is characteristic only of informal speech and that such use ought not to occur in writing. See also me.  

  • neither

    not either; not the one or the other: Neither statement is true.

  • they

    any male person or animal; a man: hes and shes.
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