text: is these a adj or a adv?   it's a pronoun. a pronoun is basically a word for something, but only if you already know what that something is (like she, him, her, they, these) because it's already given what they're talking about, an adjective is a describing word and an adverb just ends in "ly" like: heartily, happily, grumpily, sexily. all that stuff. cheers.