The noun can be used in different syntactic functions:
- Subject: This woman looks older than she is.
- Object: She took the letter and read it slowly. She looked attentively at the man standing in front of her.
- Predicative: My friend is a student.
- Attribute: John's brother doesn't look like John at all. She is a friend of my brother's. The house door was open wide.
- Adverbial modifier: There is nobody in the room now. Let's meet at my sister's. At night it became cold again.