Category talk:English pronouns

Determiners are not pronouns
Determiners such as this, all, and some can often occur without a noun. In traditional grammar, these are called pronouns. There are, however, a number of key differences between such determiners and pronouns.

--BrettR 01:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Pronouns may occur in tag questions. Determiners can't.
 * 2) This is delicious, isn't it?
 * 3) * This is delicious, isn't this?
 * 4) In phrasal verbs, pronouns must appear between the verb and particle. Determiners may occur after the particle.
 * 5) pick it up
 * 6) * pick up it
 * 7) pick this up
 * 8) pick up this

"his nibs"?
If we're allowing "his butt", I'd think "his nibs" should be in there, too; what do you think? Mark314159 (talk) 19:44, 22 February 2014 (UTC)