Category:English pro-forms

English terms that refer to other parts of speech.

• Category:English demonstrative pro-forms: English terms that refer to specified entities or qualities.
• Category:English indefinite pro-forms: English terms that refer to unspecified entities or qualities.
• Category:English interrogative pro-forms: English terms that request the listener to specify.
• Category:English pro-sentences: English terms that substitute for full sentences.
• Category:English relative pro-forms: English terms that indicate relative clauses.

Here are words used to refer to something not contained in the sentence of which they are a part. The most common of these are pronouns, but other types of words are used in this way. Many words classified in Wiktionary as interjections are pro-forms, especially responses.

See also[edit]

• anaphora
• deixis
• pro-form
• Category:English interjections