What type of pronoun is five?

Answer 1

The word 'five' is not a pronoun.

The word 'five' is a noun or an adjective(determiner).

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence.

• The pronoun that takes the place of the noun 'five' as a word for the fifth in a series or a sequence, or a word for something bearing that number is it.
• The pronoun that takes the place of five people or things is they as a subject or them as an object in a sentence.

Examples:

He slipped a five from the cash drawer and put it in his pocket.

Five of the proposals looked good. Theywere set aside for review.

Five bushels of peaches were delivered this morning. (adjective)

Note: The number 'one' functions as a noun, an adjective, and a pronoun. The pronoun 'one' is an indefinite pronoun, a word that takes the place of a noun for any person in general; for example:

One should look both ways before crossing the street.