Noun

==Nouns in relation to other word classes==
===Pronouns===
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Nouns and noun phrases can typically be replaced by [[pronoun]]s, such as ''he, it, she, they, which, these'', and ''those'', to avoid repetition or explicit identification, or for other reasons (but as noted earlier, current theory often classifies pronouns as a subclass of nouns parallel to ''prototypical nouns''). For example, in the sentence "Gareth thought she was weird", the word ''she'' is a pronoun that refers to a person just as the noun ''Gareth'' does. The word ''one'' can replace parts of noun phrases, and it sometimes stands in for a noun. An example is given below:

{{block indent|John's car is newer than ''the one'' that Bill has.}}

But ''one'' can also stand in for larger parts of a noun phrase. For example, in the following example, ''one'' can stand in for ''new car''.

{{block indent|This new car is cheaper than ''that one''.}}

===Nominalization===
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Nominalization is a process whereby a word that belongs to another part of speech comes to be used as a noun. This can be a way to create new nouns, or to use other words in ways that resemble nouns. In French and Spanish, for example, adjectives frequently act as nouns referring to people who have the characteristics denoted by the adjective. This sometimes happens in English as well, as in the following examples:

{{block indent|This legislation will have the most impact on the ''poor''.}}
{{block indent|The race is not to the ''swift'', nor the battle to the ''powerful''.}}
{{block indent|The Socialist ''International'' is a worldwide association of political parties.}}