

In the example above, both she and him are pronouns she is the subject of the sentence while him is the object.Įvery subject pronoun has a corresponding object form, as shown in the table below. Like nouns, pronouns may be used either as subjects or as objects in a sentence.Įxample: She planned to ask him for an interview. In the sentence above, she is the pronoun. The abstract concepts of integrity and love in the sentences above are both nouns.Įxample 1: She visited Chicago every year.Ĭhicago, Thanksgiving, and November are all proper nouns, and they should be capitalized.Ī pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence. In the sentence above, there are two nouns, dog and ball.Ī noun may be concrete (something you can touch, see, etc.), like the nouns in the example above, or a noun may be abstract, as in the sentences below. In a sentence, nouns answer the questions who and what. A noun is a word that denotes a person, place, or thing.
