noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
demonstrative pronoun
indefinite pronoun
personal pronoun
possessive pronoun/form/case etc
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the possessive pronouns ‘ours’ and ‘mine’
relative pronoun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
personal
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The effect of this intense focus on modes of address is that personal pronouns become unusually prominent.
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He even refers to himself with the normal personal pronouns instead of the special ones customarily reserved exclusively for the emperor.
relative
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The most notable is the relative pronoun that, which can only be used with a restrictive relative clause.
■ VERB
use
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The art-historical etiquette for describing the nude is to use the pronoun it rather than her.
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I use the pronoun I to make it a personal statement.
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Somehow I have to use this for three pronouns , each with its special significance.
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First, Arabic rarely uses independent pronouns because Arabic verbs are inflected for person, number, and gender.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And do this, to take something that might be clearly activated, she decides to look at pronouns.
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But the grammarian is tongue-tied without his labels: noun, adjective, verb, adverb, conjunction, pronoun .
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Familiar ways in which such participant-roles are encoded in language are of course the pronouns and their associated predicate agreements.
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She announced her decision this morning the pronoun she points to Mrs Thatcher within the textual world itself.
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The speaker's ambiguous pronouns, shifting their referents, helped foster this feeling of harmonious identity.
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This group of pronouns has weak forms pronounced with weaker vowels than the and of their strong forms.
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Yet while we make this point we must immediately see that these pronouns do not characterize the relationship.