Guard: Aaaargh, you, thing, beast, whatsit, greeneroo…
Narrator: Whoa hang on a minute there little shiny man. You seem to be having a few problems, sorting out your nouns and pronouns.
Guard: Quuuuick, tell the ‘Guards’ to tell ‘Amir’, to tell ‘Holly’ to tell the ‘Queen’…there’s a Lizard Monster on the loooooose!
Narrator: Aha, the perfect chance for me to explain.
You see, pronouns take the place of nouns in a sentence.
Instead of tell the ‘guards’, you could tell ‘them’.
And rather than tell the ‘guards’ to tell ‘Amir’, you could tell ‘them’ to tell ‘him’.
Now rather than have ‘him’ tell ‘Holly’, we could use our friend the pronoun again and ‘he’ could tell ‘her’. Then ‘she’ could tell the Queen…
Lizard Monster: …that ‘I’ have arrived for tea.
Description
A pronoun takes the place of a noun in a sentence. Pronouns are short words like ‘it’, ‘she’, ‘he’, ‘you’, ‘we’, ‘they’, ‘us’ and ‘them’.
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