Pronoun is the class of words that replaces the noun (noun). has the purpose of indicate the person of the speech or place in time and space, without using your name.
Noun pronoun is one that performs the noun function. Example: She is my guest.
Adjective pronoun is one that accompanies or modifies a noun. Example: My pen is blue, those pens are blue.
Pronouns vary in gender, number and person.
Pronouns have several characteristics: they form several closed morphological systems (I, you, he/she, etc; mine/mine, your/yours, your/yours, etc.); most accept, like names, gender and number morphemes; act by allusion to something already mentioned or implicit in the message or in the linguistic or extralinguistic context, maintaining, even when isolated, a generic semantic base with the ability to refer to another realization lexical, etc.
Pronouns treatment
Treatment pronouns indicate formal or informal treatment: You, Your Excellency, Your Majesty...
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Relative pronouns
Relative pronouns are those that refer to a term mentioned above: whose, which, which, who... They establish a relationship between what they refer to and the statement that will be made about them.
Personal pronouns
Personal pronouns represent the people in the speech (first, second or third): I, you, he/she, we, you, they/they.
The forms that serve as complements are also personal pronouns (me, me, me, us, us; you, you, with you, you, with you; the, the, the, if, if, with, the, as, them).
Personal pronouns are further divided into: straight personal pronouns (when they exercise the function of subject); and oblique personal pronouns (when they substitute the noun and complement the verbs).
Demonstrative pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns indicate the position of something, placing it in space and time: this, that, that... These pronouns establish a relationship between what represents or determines and the three spheres of discourse: this, that, that, etc.
Possessive pronouns
Possessive pronouns express the notion of possession of something: mine, yours, yours, yours... Indicates who owns what is referred to in the speech.
Indefinite Pronouns
Indefinite pronouns indicate the quantity of what represents in a vague or imprecise way: nobody, somebody, anybody...
Interrogative pronouns
Interrogative pronouns serve to formulate an interrogation. It is usually a relative pronoun used to interrogate: who, what, which...
oblique pronouns
The oblique pronouns act as a direct or indirect complement: me, te, him, if, me, ti...
See also the meaning of Adjective, Verb and Preposition.
See also the meaning of definite and indefinite article.
