The function of pronoun is to replace
the noun. In the sentence it can replace the noun in the subject and in the
object. Have a look the examples below!
1.
John
and William are English students. They memorize five vocabularies every day.
2.
Henry
visits his new girl friend twice a week. He always gives her flowers every time
he visits her.
3.
Whose
book is this?
This is my book.
4.
Whose
book is this?
This is mine.
5.
I
myself do this assignment.
The first sentence we can see that the
word ‘they’ replaces the subject ‘John and William’. We do not need to write ‘John
and William’ anymore instead of ‘they’. ‘They’ here is called as a subject
pronoun because it replaces the noun ‘John and William’ in the subject of the
sentence. The word ‘they’ here comes before the verb ‘are’ (or it can be called
as linking verb). So, we can understand that the subject pronoun is located
before the subject not after the verb.
