Pronouns and Determiners |
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There is considerable overlap
between the determiner class and the subclass of pronouns. Many words can
be both:
As this table shows, determiners always come before a noun, but pronouns are more independent than this. They function in much the same way as nouns, and they can be replaced by nouns in the sentences above:
On the other hand, when these words are determiners, they cannot be replaced by nouns:
The personal pronouns (I, you, he, etc) cannot be determiners. This is also true of the possessive pronouns (mine, yours, his/hers, ours, and theirs). However, these pronouns do have corresponding forms which are determiners:
The definite and the indefinite articles
can never be pronouns. They are always determiners.
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