Answer to Question #220538 in English for Eddy

Question

Write comprehensive commentary on the syntax of the pronoun

Answer 1

Pronouns are a very heterogeneous group. The unifying property of pronouns is that they are function words whose interpretation relies on that of the context (linguistic or situational). Traditionally pronoun is used for those words that show a distribution similar to that of an NP and whose interpretation is usually linked to that of an NP in the discourse. However, there are so-called pro-forms for other syntactic categories as well.