Placeholder vs Pronoun - What's the difference?
placeholder | pronoun |
Something used or included temporarily or as a substitute for something that is not known or must remain generic; that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later.
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, title=Film: Reviews: A Good Day To Die Hard
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(grammar) A type of noun that refers anaphorically to another noun or noun phrase, but which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective. English examples include I, you, him, who, me, my, each other .
As nouns the difference between placeholder and pronoun
is that placeholder is something used or included temporarily or as a substitute for something that is not known or must remain generic; that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later while pronoun is a type of noun that refers anaphorically to another noun or noun phrase, but which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective. English examples include I, you, him, who, me, my, each other.placeholder
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* place holderNoun
(en noun)- This is placeholder data, so you’ll want to include the real numbers as soon as you have them.
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