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adjective pronoun

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noun

Grammar.
  1. a pronoun used as an adjective, as his in

    His dinner is ready.


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Them is the objective case of the personal pronoun and cannot be used adjectively like the demonstrative adjective pronoun.

From How to Speak and Write Correctly by Devlin, Joseph

Other is an adjective pronoun, it is used specifically to describe its noun—indefinite, it expresses its subject in an indefinite manner, and belongs to men: Rule 19.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel

If the noun is expressed, the word in question is called a pronominal adjective; but if the noun is omitted so that the word in question takes its place, it is called an adjective pronoun.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

When it is a relative or an adjective pronoun, it may be known by the signs given; and whenever these signs will not apply to it, you know it is a conjunction.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel

Let the teacher further illustrate the office of the adjective pronoun by using the words each, all, many, some, such, etc.

From Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room by Reed, Alonzo

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