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In grammar, a part of speech that is used in
place of a noun, usually to save repetition
of the noun (for example `The people arrived
around nine o'clock. They behaved as though
we were expecting them'). They, them, he, and
she are personal pronouns (representing
people); this/these, and that/those are
demonstrative pronouns (demonstrating or
pointing to something: `this book and not
that book'. Words like that and who can be
relative pronouns in sentences like `She said
that she was coming' and `Tell me who did it'
relating one clause to another), and myself
and himself are reflexive pronouns
(reflecting back to a person, as in `He did
it himself').