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No, the word 'boys' is a noun, the plural form of boy, a word for a person.

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 'boys' is they as a subject and them as an object.

Examples:

I hear the boys at the door. They must be hungry. I'll make some Sandwiches for them.

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