pronoun meaning
EN
[pɹoʊ.naʊn] WPronoun
- 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 consider them to form a single class, in view of the variety of functions they perform.
- The use of pronouns often involves anaphora, where the meaning of the pronoun is dependent on an antecedent. This applies especially to third-person personal pronouns, and to relative pronouns.
- NounPLpronounsPREpro-
- (grammar) A type of noun that refers anaphorically to another noun or noun phrase, but which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective. English examples include I, you, him, who, me, my, each other.
- 2013, Nicholas Brownless, Spoken Discourse in Early English Newspapers. In: Joad Raymond (ed.), News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe, p.72
- As here the possessive pronoun 'our' has inclusive reference in that it a priori includes both the editor and reader, its presense amounts to a kind of pronominal bonding between writer and reader.
- 2014, N. M. Gwynne, Gwynne's Latin: The Ultimate Introduction to Latin Including the Latin in Everyday English, Random House (ebook without page numbers) [the italic words were originally bold]
- Meus and tuus are called adjectival pronouns – or alternatively possessive adjectives.
- 2015, Murray Shukyn & Achim K. Krull & Dale E. Shuttleworth, Cliffsnotes GED Test Cram Plan, 2nd edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, p.140
- Pronouns must agree with the nouns they replace. If a pronoun replaces a singular noun, it should itself be singular. For example: I brought my fishing rod. My and I are both singular and agree with each other. If the subject were plural, it would read: We brought our fishing rods. The plural pronoun our agrees with the plural we.
- (grammar) A type of noun that refers anaphorically to another noun or noun phrase, but which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective. English examples include I, you, him, who, me, my, each other.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- In English, the third person consists of pronouns such as he, she, it, and they, verbs such as is and has, and most nouns.
- A noun phrase is overspecified when it is used in a context where a pronoun would have been unambiguous.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of pronoun in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Morphemes
- Prefixes
- Words by prefix
- Words prefixed with pro-
- Words prefixed with pro-
- Words by prefix
- Prefixes
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Morphemes
- en pronounced
- en pronounce
- en pronounciation
- en pronounceable
- en pronouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "pronoun" is a morpheme, more specifically, a prefixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.