|Lesson 5 - Pronouns| A pronoun is a word we use to take the
place of a noun, which can be a person, place or thing. We use
it (pronoun) to avoid repeating a noun that had already been
mentioned. We can write or say, “Jim has a bicycle. Jim rides
his bicycle every day.” But there’s a better way of putting it
using pronouns: Jim has a bicycle. He rides it every day. The
words he and it are pronouns used to replace the nouns Jim and
bicycle. Examples of pronoun are I, you, he, she, it, we, they,
anyone, everyone, himself, myself, nobody, yourself, who. Other
examples include this, that, all, any, each, none, some, that,
what, which, etc. These pronouns can also be determiners, so how
can we tell whether they are pronouns or determiners. It all
depends on how they are used. As pronouns, they are used
independently, that is without a noun following them. (See List
10 for indefinite pronouns)