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pronoun
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pronoun, in English, the part of speech part of speech, in traditional English grammar , any one of about eight major classes of words, based on the parts of speech of ancient Greek and Latin. The parts of speech are noun , verb , adjective , adverb, interjection , preposition , conjunction , and pronoun .
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 used as a substitute for an antecedent noun that is clearly understood, and with which it agrees in person, number number, entity describing the magnitude or position of a mathematical object or extensions of these concepts.

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Cardinal numbers describe the size of a collection of objects; two such collections have the same (cardinal) number of
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, and gender gender [Lat. genus=kind], in grammar, subclassification of nouns or nounlike words in which the members of the subclass have characteristic features of agreement with other words.
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. In English the pronouns are classified as personal (I, we, you, thou, he, she, it, they), demonstrative (this, these, that, those), relative (who, which, that, as), indefinite (e.g., each, all, everyone, either, one, both, any, such, somebody), interrogative (who, which, what), possessive, sometimes termed possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her, our, their), and reflexive (e.g., myself, herself). The case case, in language, one of the several possible forms of a given noun, pronoun, or adjective that indicates its grammatical function (see inflection ); in inflected languages it is usually indicated by a series of suffixes attached to a stem, as in Latin amicus,
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 of the pronoun depends upon its function in the sentence structure.


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