What is a pronoun phrase?

Answer 1

The part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for, previously specified, or understood from the context.

Pronouns are small words that take the place of a noun. We can use a pronoun instead of a noun. When we use pronouns, we don't have to repeat the same noun every time we refer to it.

For example:

Mary and John bought a new house. Mary and John have asked for volunteers to help paint Mary and John's new house.

OR, using pronouns:

Mary and John bought a new house. They have asked for volunteers to help paint their new house.

Answer 2

Any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective

Answer 3

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing rightly called a pronoun phrase. A pronoun phrase is a form of noun phrase (any word or group of words based on a noun or pronoun, without a verb, that can function in a sentence as a subject, or object of a verb or a preposition).

Here's an example:

Is there anyone with medical trainingin this building?

"Anyone" in this sentence is a pronoun (an indefinite pronoun to be exact) "with medical training" describes the kind of person (anyone) we are asking for. Therefore, since the pronoun "anyone" is the main focus in the phrase (in bold font), we can tell that this is a phrase with a pronoun as its head word.

But this is a noun phrase, NOT a pronoun phrase.