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A pronoun is used in place of a noun to refer to a noun. The noun the pronoun refers to is its antecedent. There are seven kinds of pronouns;

1. Personal pronouns: these can be first person (speaker), second person (the one spoken to), and third person (the one spoken of). ex. You need to stop lying to me.
2. Demonstrative pronouns: these are used to point out nouns. This and that are singular and refer to singular nouns. These and those are plural and refer to plural nouns. ex. This was my mother's ring.
3. Interrogative pronouns: are used to ask questions (who, what, whose, whom, which) ex. What do you want for dinner?
4. Intensive and Reflexive pronouns: these end with the suffix -self or -selves (himself, herself, oneself, themselves). Intensive pronouns are used after a noun or other pronoun for emphasis. Intensive pronouns aren’t essential to a sentence’s basic meaning, reflexive pronouns are. ex. Jim made himself coffee. 
5. Relative pronouns: are used to connect an adjective clause to its antecedent in an independent clause. (who, whom, whose, which, that, whoever, whomever). ex. The cyclist who won the race trained hard.
6. Indefinite pronouns: these are used to refer to unspecified persons or things. ex. 
   Somebody ate my sandwich!