Introduction to noun, pronoun

NOUN
Of all the parts of speech, nouns are perhaps the most important. A noun is a word that identifies a person, animal, place, thing, or idea.
Identifying a Noun
A noun is a part of speech that denotes a person, animal, place, thing, or idea.  Every language has words that are nouns. As you read the following explanations, think about some words that might fit into each category.

• Person – A term for a person, whether proper name, gender, title, or class, is a noun.
• Place – A term for a place, whether proper name, physical location, or general locale is a noun.
• Thing – A term for a thing, whether it exists now, will exist, or existed in the past is a noun.
• Idea – A term for an idea, be it a real, workable idea or a fantasy that might never come to fruition is a noun.

PRONOUN

 In grammar, a pronoun is defined as a word or phrase that may be substituted for a noun or noun phrase.  In a nutshell, it’s because pronouns can do everything that nouns can do. A pronoun can act as a subject, direct object, indirect object, object of the preposition, and more.

Without pronouns, we’d have to keep on repeating nouns, and that would make our speech and writing repetitive, not to mention cumbersome. Most pronouns are very short words. Examples include:

• He
• She
• They
• It
• We
• Who