What is a pronoun?

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What is a pronoun?발음듣기

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[Voiceover] Hello grammarians. We're going to start talking about pronouns today, and of course that begins with the question, What are pronouns?발음듣기

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Allow me to answer that question by way of a demonstration.발음듣기

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Emma laughed so hard, milk came out of Emma's nose.발음듣기

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Zach lifted the log.발음듣기

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Zach found a worm under the log.발음듣기

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So, these sentences don't have pronouns, but what they do have is repeated nouns.발음듣기

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Here we have Emma and then we say Emma's again, and then we say Zach and the log, and then we say Zach and the log.발음듣기

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But, people are smart, right?발음듣기

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We have relatively long attention spans, and so if we start off a sentence talking about Emma, and we're pretty sure that we're still talking about Emma, we don't need to say that name twice.발음듣기

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We don't need to say Emma and then Emma again.발음듣기

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So, what a pronoun does is it allows you to take out the unnecessary noun when we're very certain we know what we're talking about.발음듣기

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So you don't have to say Emma a million times, you can replace Emma with her.발음듣기

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Same thing applies to the second two sentences.발음듣기

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We don't have to keep on mentioning Zach and the log when we know what we're talking about.발음듣기

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So the first sentence would still read Zach lifted the log, but then in the second sentence we can replace the name Zach, since we already know who we're talking about, with the word he, and we can replace this little phrase, the log, with it, since we know we're talking about the log.발음듣기

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Now, words like her and he and it are all pronouns.발음듣기

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So, what are pronouns?발음듣기

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They are words that stand in for other words.발음듣기

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Now, obviously, her, he, and it are not the only pronouns in English, but for now I just want you to think about the idea that a pronoun is a word that stands in for another word.발음듣기

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You can learn anything. David out.발음듣기

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