Pete is a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliot. And from Peteâs descriptions, Elliot seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meachamâs stories.
Download version. Overview: Personal pronouns take the place of nouns that refer to people, places, and things. Pronoun usage is one of the top ten problems beginning college writers struggle with because they primarily use the pronouns I, you, and they as the subjects of their sentences in normal conversation.
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. Pronouns can do all of the things that nouns can do. They can be subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, object of the preposition, and more. Heck, the word pronoun even has the word noun in it!