as different from nouns, but at least one modern grammar defines them as a subclass of nouns.

English personal pronouns have a number of different syntactic contexts (Subject, Object, Possessive, Reflexive) and many features:

* person (1st, 2nd, 3rd);
* number (singular, plural);
* gender (masculine, feminine, neuter or inanimate, epicene)

+ Rare.

English also has other pronoun types, including demonstrative, relative, indefinite, and interrogative pronouns:

Personal and possessive

Personal