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Personal Pronoun

1. The meaning of personal Pronoun The writer would like to explain about pronouns before giving the definition of personal pronoun. Frank (1972:20) states that the traditional definition of pronoun is as a word that takes the places of a noun. Modern grammarians who regard position and function as the decisive factors in classifying a part of speech often consider pronoun as a subclass of noun. The differences of many pronouns are more highly inflected for grammatical properties, (person, number, case and gender), and all pronouns lack the derivational endings (Such as; - tion, - ment) that nouns have. According to Frank (1972:27), Pronouns have most of the same functions as noun, such as: a. Subject of verb e. g; They were late for their appointment b. Object of verb - Direct object: e. g; We enjoy ourselves at the party - Indirect: e. g; We will send you the goods immediately c. Subjective Complement e. g; That’s the one d. Object of preposition e. g; After this, be more careful e.