Tuesday, September 13, 2016

grammar - How can a pronoun "one" be a noun?

I asked a question some days ago about if an atributive-only adjective can be followed by a pronoun one, for example in this sentence





When the Olympics began in 779 B.C. There were not a lot of events. There was only one.




...but the answers just got me more confused because I thought one, as Oxford and Longman dictionaries say, is a pronoun; but someone said it is a noun.



Could you please tell me if my sentence above is correct or not, because I think there is something wrong with that — especially with the attributive adjective only and the noun or pronoun one but I really don't know what.

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