PRONOUN


Meaning of PRONOUN in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

demonstrative pronoun

indefinite pronoun

personal pronoun

possessive pronoun/form/case etc

the possessive pronouns ‘ours’ and ‘mine’

relative pronoun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

personal

The effect of this intense focus on modes of address is that personal pronouns become unusually prominent.

He even refers to himself with the normal personal pronouns instead of the special ones customarily reserved exclusively for the emperor.

relative

The most notable is the relative pronoun that, which can only be used with a restrictive relative clause.

■ VERB

use

The art-historical etiquette for describing the nude is to use the pronoun it rather than her.

I use the pronoun I to make it a personal statement.

Somehow I have to use this for three pronouns , each with its special significance.

First, Arabic rarely uses independent pronouns because Arabic verbs are inflected for person, number, and gender.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And do this, to take something that might be clearly activated, she decides to look at pronouns.

But the grammarian is tongue-tied without his labels: noun, adjective, verb, adverb, conjunction, pronoun .

Familiar ways in which such participant-roles are encoded in language are of course the pronouns and their associated predicate agreements.

She announced her decision this morning the pronoun she points to Mrs Thatcher within the textual world itself.

The speaker's ambiguous pronouns, shifting their referents, helped foster this feeling of harmonious identity.

This group of pronouns has weak forms pronounced with weaker vowels than the and of their strong forms.

Yet while we make this point we must immediately see that these pronouns do not characterize the relationship.

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