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The word 'family' is a noun, a singular, common noun; a word for a group consisting of two parents and their children as a unit; all the descendants of a common ancestor; all the persons living together in one household; a group of related things.

The word 'family' is also be an adjective, a word that describes a noun; for example 'the family home' or 'the family bible.'

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence. The pronouns that takes the place of the noun family are 'they' as a subject, 'them' as an object, or 'it' as a subject or object. For example:

My family is coming for the weekend. They will be here on Friday evening. It will be good to see them.

This family of greens is pleasant, it has some soothing shades.

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