The word 'friends' is both a noun and a verb.
The noun 'friends' is the plural form of the noun 'friend', a word for someone whom one knows, likes, and trusts; a word for a person(s).
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence. The pronouns that take the place of the plural noun 'friends' are they as a subject and them as an object in a sentence.
Example: My friends are coming to visit. They plan to stay for the weekend. I'm looking forward to seeing them.
The verb 'friends' is the third person, singular, present of the verb 'to friend', meaning to add someone to a list of contacts associated with a social networking website.
The noun 'friends' is the plural form of the singular noun 'friend', a word for a person.
The plural noun 'friends' is a word for people.
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The word 'friends' is not a pronoun, it's a noun. The word friends is a plural, common, abstract noun. The appropriate pronoun to use for friends is 'they' (subjective) or 'them' (objective). Examples:They are my friends. I go to school with them.
The incorrect pronoun is they.The pronoun 'they' refers to the compound subject of the sentence 'my friends and I', which is a first person noun phrase because the person speaking is included. The pronoun 'they' is a third person pronoun, referring to people spoken about.The pronoun 'they' must be changed to the first person, plural pronoun 'we' to take the place of antecedent noun phrase 'my friends and I' as the subject of the dependent clause:My friends and I went to the museum where we saw the modern art exhibit.
No, because a pronoun replaces a noun; the word 'pronoun' does not replace a noun, it is a noun.
A pronoun is a substitute for a noun. An antecedent is the noun that the pronoun is standing in for.A pronoun must agree in number (singular, plural) and gender (male, female, neuter) with the noun antecedent.
Fruit is not a pronoun, it is a noun, a common, singular noun.
The word 'friends' is not a pronoun, it's a noun. The word friends is a plural, common, abstract noun. The appropriate pronoun to use for friends is 'they' (subjective) or 'them' (objective). Examples:They are my friends. I go to school with them.
No, "friends" is not a demonstrative pronoun. Demonstrative pronouns are words like "this," "that," "these," and "those," which point to specific things or people. "Friends" is a noun that refers to people who have a close relationship with each other.
The word friends is a common, plural noun; a word for a person. The pronoun representing friends is they (subject) or them (object). Examples:The subject pronoun: My friends will be here at three because they want to help me bake cookies.The object pronoun: My friends will be here at three and I've made cookies for them.
The word 'friends' is a noun, the plural form for the noun 'friend', a word for a person.Example: The friends got together to bring gifts to a classmate in the hospital.
The pronoun they renames the subject noun 'friends'.
No, the word 'of' is a preposition, a word that shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and another word in a sentence.Examples:He gave me a book of poetry. (the preposition 'of' connects the noun 'poetry' to the noun 'book')Many of my friends like poetry. (the preposition 'of' connects the noun 'friends' to the indefinite pronoun 'many')A possessive pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun that belongs to someone or something.The possessive pronouns are: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.Example: The house on the corner is mine. (the possessive pronoun 'mine' takes the place of the noun 'house')
The incorrect pronoun is they.The pronoun 'they' refers to the compound subject of the sentence 'my friends and I', which is a first person noun phrase because the person speaking is included. The pronoun 'they' is a third person pronoun, referring to people spoken about.The pronoun 'they' must be changed to the first person, plural pronoun 'we' to take the place of antecedent noun phrase 'my friends and I' as the subject of the dependent clause:My friends and I went to the museum where we saw the modern art exhibit.
The word 'friends' is both a noun and a verb.The noun 'friends' is a plural, common, concrete noun; the plural form of the noun 'friend', a word for someone whom one knows, likes, and trusts; a word for a person(s).A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence. The pronouns that take the place of the plural noun 'friends' are they as a subject and them as an object in a sentence.Example: My friends are coming to visit. They plan to stay for the weekend. I'm looking forward to seeing them.The verb 'friends' is the third person, singular, present of the verb 'to friend', meaning to add someone to a list of contacts associated with a social networking website.
The pronoun is few, an indefinite pronoun, a word that takes the place of a noun for an unknown or unnamed number of people.The indefinite pronoun 'few' is the plural subject of the sentence (a few really like).The word 'few' also functions as an adjective when placed before a noun to describe that noun: "I'm going skating with a few friends."
The word 'friends' is a plural, common, concrete noun; a word for people.The noun 'friends' is not a collective noun.A collective noun is a word used to group people or things in a descriptive way.Example: I went to the movies with a bunch of friends. (the noun 'bunch' is functioning as a collective noun)The term 'reflexive' is used for a reflexive pronoun, a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence.Example: My friends bought themselves some refreshments. (the reflexive pronoun 'themselves' takes the place of the noun 'friends' as the indirect object of the verb 'bought')
No, because a pronoun replaces a noun; the word 'pronoun' does not replace a noun, it is a noun.
The antecedent is the noun, the noun phrase, or the pronoun that a pronoun replaces.