What is another word for pronouns?

Pronunciation: [pɹˈə͡ʊna͡ʊnz] (IPA)

Pronouns are words that replace nouns in a sentence. There are several different types of pronouns including personal pronouns, reflexive pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, and relative pronouns. Synonyms for the word "pronouns" include substitutes, replacements, and placeholders. These words all refer to the function of pronouns in a sentence, as they serve to take the place of a specific noun. Another synonym is anaphora, which refers specifically to the repetition of a pronoun or noun phrase at the beginning of consecutive sentences. Understanding synonyms for the word "pronouns" can help writers improve their language and create more diverse and engaging sentences.

Synonyms for Pronouns:

What are the hypernyms for Pronouns?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Pronouns

By what pronouns are they referred to?
"Practical Grammar and Composition"
Thomas Wood
In the use of the adjective pronouns, some, each, etc.
"Practical Grammar and Composition"
Thomas Wood
But and as are sometimes relative pronouns.
"Practical Grammar and Composition"
Thomas Wood

Famous quotes with Pronouns

  • If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?
    Carol P. Christ
  • Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?
    Carol P. Christ
  • Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.
    Holly Near
  • In the criminal code we find no feminine pronouns, as "He," "His," "Him," we are arrested, tried and hung, but singularly enough, we are denied the highest privileges of citizens, because the pronouns "She," "Hers" and "Her," are not found in the constitutions. It is a pertinent question, if women can pay the penalties of their crimes as "He," why may they not enjoy the privileges of citizens as "He"?
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Many feminists have been grieved or aggrieved by because the androgynes in it are called ‘he’ throughout. In the third person singular, the English generic pronoun is the same as the masculine pronoun. A fact worth reflecting upon. And it’s a trap, with no way out, because the exclusion of the feminine (she) and the neuter (it) from the generic/masculine (he) makes the use of either of them more specific, more unjust, as it were, than the use of ‘he.’ And I find made-up pronouns, ‘te’ and ‘heshe’ and so on, dreary and annoying.
    Ursula K. Le Guin

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