Pronoun - Pronouns and Determiners

Pronouns and Determiners

Pronouns and determiners are closely related, and some linguists think pronouns are actually determiners without a noun or a noun phrase. The following chart shows their relationships in English.

Pronoun Determiner
Personal (1st/2nd) we we Scotsmen
Possessive ours our freedom
Demonstrative this this gentleman
Indefinite some some frogs
Interrogative who which option

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    “In the meantime no sense in bickering about pronouns and other parts of blather.”
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