A pronoun is a word used as a place-holder for a noun, a noun phrase, or a different pronoun. Pronouns are usually used in writing and speech as a way of keeping the flow of the words smooth by reducing repeated use of the full subject or object word.
Pronouns usually come after the noun they are replacing, as in the sentence:
Lily smiled down at him, and as she did her hair fell in front of her face.
In some regional speech and less formal writing, the pronoun may come before the noun it is replacing, but in this case it should be made very explicit which noun is being substituted. A dialectical example of a precedent pronoun is:
She smiled down at him, Lily did, while her hair fell in front of her face.
It's important to note that the instances of her in the examples above are not pronouns, specifically possessive pronouns. Rather, they are possessive adjectives.
There are many different types of pronoun, but the most important include the personal, the demonstrative, the relative, the interrogative, the indefinite, the intensive, and the reflexive.
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