Pronouns and Determiners
Pronouns and determiners are closely related, and some linguists think pronouns are actually determiners without a noun or a noun phrase. The following chart shows their relationships in English.
| Pronoun | Determiner | |
|---|---|---|
| Personal (1st/2nd) | we | we Scotsmen |
| Possessive | ours | our freedom |
| Demonstrative | this | this gentleman |
| Indefinite | some | some frogs |
| Interrogative | who | which option |
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“In the meantime no sense in bickering about pronouns and other parts of blather.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)