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The problem with pronouns
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this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2024
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Way back when, yet still in memory, there were no pronouns.
"there" is a pronoun in your example. You're saying "pronouns were not there" in a ye-olden format, and "there" is standing in for a place (meaning has changed over time).
'Way back when, yet still in memory, English had no pronouns."
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I'm not a native speaker, but wouldn't it be an adverb?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/there
depends on the use, but in this situation I'm leaning towards definition #2