When you speak or write, however, you don' t keep repeating the same noun over and over. That would sound pretty odd. So you use pronouns to take the place of nouns.
Pronouns referring specifically to people (I, we, you, he/she, they, and their other forms) and the pronoun it are called personal pronouns.
Other types of pronouns include:
Interrogative pronouns: what, which, who, whom, whose.
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Indefinite pronouns, such as all, anyone, everybody, no one, someone.
Demonstrative pronouns, such as this, these, that, those.
Relative pronouns, such as that, which, and who.
Personal pronouns take three main forms:
I, we, you, he, she, they, and it are subject pronouns.
Me, us, you, him, her, them, and it are object pronouns.
My/mine, our/ours, your/yours, his, her/hers, its, their/theirs and whose are possessive pronouns.
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