Grammar Guides Series

We're covering the basics for the next few Grammar Guides. We've already defined verb tenses, verbals, and clichés. Now it's time for us to look at people, places, things, and the words that replace them in a sentence. Bear with me, I know you've heard all these definitions once already in school. Hopefully, now you're paying attention to the subject at hand and not the cute boy or girl sitting in the desk next to you.

"A pronoun is a word used in place of one or more nouns." (Warriner's 5) But don't write the pronouns off. Just think how monotonous writing would be if we always had to call things by their proper names or had to show possessions with a prepositional phrase starting with "of" not to mention asking questions and avoiding repetition would get a lot harder without pronouns.