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| | Pronoun - definition of Pronoun in Encyclopedia |
 | | For example, both Latin and ancient Greek distinguish the relative pronoun from the interrogative pronoun. | | | A common pattern is the so-called T-V distinction (named after the use of pronouns beginning in t- and v- in Romance languages, as in French tu/vous). | | | Latin made do without third person pronouns, replacing them by deictics (which are in fact the source of personal pronouns in all Romance languages). |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Pronoun
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| | English Grammar |
| | The use of who, whom and whose as relative pronouns is similar to their use as interrogative pronouns. | | | The indefinite pronoun one is used in formal English to make general statements. | | | However, this use of their is considered to be grammatically incorrect in formal English. |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramch19.html
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| | pronoun - Columbia Encyclopedia article about pronoun |
| | pronoun, in English, the part of speech part of speech, in traditional English grammar, any one of about eight major classes of words, based on the parts of speech of ancient Greek and Latin. | | | The text of his order(altered from the original by only a pronoun, which is not much) ran: "The earth and the fulness thereof are mine, saith Monseigneur. | | | of the pronoun depends upon its function in the sentence structure. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/pronoun
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| | Lesson Fifteen, Problems with Pronouns |
| | When you are trying to decide upon the correct pronoun for these kinds of sentences, think of the missing words. | | | You should always use a possessive pronoun if it falls before a gerund. | | | For the following sentences, select the pronoun that is most acceptable for formal writing. |
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http://www.longview.k12.wa.us/mmhs/wyatt/homework/grammar/less15.html
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| | Gender-neutral pronoun at opensource encyclopedia |
| | In English, the only gender-specific pronouns are the third-person singular: he, him, himself, his, she, her, herself, and hers. | | | The Epicene Pronouns: A Chronology of the Word That Failed | | | The pronoun 他 (ta) means "he" and "she". |
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http://www.wiki.tatet.com/Gender-neutral_pronouns.html
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| | What Is A Pronoun? |
| | Seamus stole the selkie's skin and forced her to live with him. | | | Here the interrogative pronoun "whom " is the object of the preposition "to." | | | The subjective personal pronouns are "I," "you," "she," "he," "it," "we," "you," "they." |
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http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/pronouns.html
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| | Hamilton College - Writing Center - The Sixth Deadly Sin: Pronoun Problems |
| | Writers should spend time thinking about their arguments to make sure they are not superficial. | | | Pope Gregory VII forced Emperor Henry IV to wait three days in the snow at Canossa before granting him an audience. | | | Pronouns such as it, there, and this often make weak subjects. |
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http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/resource/wc/sins/sin6.html
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| | Pronoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He is the man who stole my bicycle. | | | the word "your" is a possessive adjective, not a pronoun. | | | A pronoun can also be precedent, as "He" is in the sentence: "He gave it to her, John did." |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoun
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| | UW-Waukesha - OWL - Pronoun Errors |
| | If you were referring to the antecedent "Mary," you would not use the pronoun "him" or "them" because it would not make sense. | | | The possessive pronoun his in "his best friend" does have a clear antecedent (Bob), but the pronoun in "his yard" could refer to either Bob or the friend; thus, it is confusing. | | | Pronouns are words such as me, you, he, she, it, we, and they that we frequently use so that we do not have to constantly write out the name of some person, place, or thing. |
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http://waukesha.uwc.edu/academics/owl/pronoun.html
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| | Pronoun Case |
| | Replace the subjective pronoun I (or we, he, she, or they) with the objective pronoun that is correct in Standard Written English. | | | He loves his truck more than I love his truck. | | | He loves his truck more than he lovesme. |
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http://www.octech.org/icourses/eng/eng101/procs.html
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| | Pronoun |
| | This is a correct of a possessive pronoun because | | | A possessive pronoun is a pronoun that says you, or someone else, owns something. | | | A correct example of a possessive pronoun: " |
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http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/grammar/Pronouns/pronouns.htm
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| | Pronoun - Antecedent Agreements |
| | Three words describe the properties of of the pronoun he. | | | If we replace man (the object in the sentence) with a pronoun, we choose him, an object pronoun. | | | Sometimes a personal pronoun may be an antecedent. |
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http://wwwnew.towson.edu/ows/modulePAA.htm
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| | Pronouns |
| | For more on each type of pronoun, see the glossary entry for that type. | | | The personal interrogative pronouns come in the same three cases as the personal pronouns. | | | In English there are seven different kinds of pronouns. |
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http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000366.htm
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| | Pronouns |
| | A possessive pronoun tells you who owns something. | | | pronoun - pronoun, in English, the part of speech used as a substitute for an antecedent noun that is clearly... | | | Each of these words can also act as a reflective pronoun (see above). |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0885483.html
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| | i - definition of i by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | This usage is natural in colloquial speech, but the nominative forms should be used in formal speech and writing: John and she (not her) will be giving the talk. | | | Usage Note: The question of when to use nominative forms of the personal pronouns (for example, I, she, they) and when to use objective forms (for example, me, her, them) has always created controversy among grammarians and uncertainty among speakers and writers. | | | Used to refer to oneself as speaker or writer. |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/I
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| | COROLLARY THEOREMS - GRAMMAR: PRONOUN |
| | This is a good opportunity to present Possessive Pronoun exemplified, together with Possessive Adjective. | | | However, there are cases when pronoun is ahead of the noun. | | | There are many Indefinite Pronouns and I will list few of them. |
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http://www.corollarytheorems.com/Grammar/pronoun.htm
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| | Pronoun Antecedent Agreement |
| | The critique of Plato's Republic was written from a contemporary point of view. | | | Replace the pronoun he with he or she. | | | However, the third person pronouns (he, she, it, they) almost always derive their meaning from their antecedents or the words for which they stand. |
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http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/pronante.html
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| | PRONOUN PACKET |
| | Two freshmen boys, he and I, live here. | | | Carol and she (not her) were on the porch. | | | Besides Personal Pronouns there are COMPOUND PERSONAL PRONOUNS. |
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http://www.readbygrade3.com/pron.html
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| | 1.2a - Pronoun & Antecedent |
| | If your response shows as "Incorrect" in the status bar, you can click on the other answers to find the correct one (which will give you "Correct" in the status bar) | | | "Mary" is the antecedent of the pronoun "she". | | | "Dave" is the antecedent of the pronoun "who". |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/speech/1_2a.htm
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| | Pronouns - Glossary Definition - UsingEnglish.com |
| | Home > Reference > Glossary > P > Pronouns | | | There are a number of different kinds of pronouns in English. | | | 3 Possessive Pronoun - mine, yours, his, etc.. |
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http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/pronoun.html
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| | On - French Indefinite Subject Pronoun |
| | is the French indefinite subject pronoun, used mainly in informal French. | | | Likewise, some say that you should make the past participles of être verbs agree with the implied subject, such as Les filles sont tombées => On est tombées. | | | is a masculine singular pronoun and its verb conjugation and adjectives should agree with that, but it's pretty much up to you - or at least your French teacher. |
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http://french.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201.htm
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| | Lessons 26-30 |
| | He himself had helped my mother do something. | | | Who, whom, whose, which, and what are interrogative pronouns. | | | Find each pronoun and tell what kind it is. It is either personal, relative, demonstrative, indefinite, or interrogative. |
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http://www.dailygrammar.com/026to030.shtml
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| | Pronouns and Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement |
| | For additional help recognizing and working pronouns, see Chapter 13 of Sentence Sense: A Writer's Guide | | | It might be useful to compare the forms of who to the forms of the pronouns he and they. | | | Basic Principle: A pronoun usually refers to something earlier in the text (its antecedent) and must agree in number — singular/plural — with the thing to which it refers. |
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http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm
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| | Unclear Pronoun Reference |
| | How do we know if a sentence contains unclear pronoun reference? | | | Because we cannot tell which of the nouns is the antecedent, this sentence is an unclear pronoun reference outlaw. | | | If the pronoun reference is clear, the sentence should make sense. |
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http://ace.acadiau.ca/english/grammar/pronoun.htm
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| | Pronoun Rules |
| | Correct: Neither Mary nor Catherine went to her high school prom. | | | Compound antecedents are two or more antecedents that accompany each other. | | | The noun to which the pronoun refers is the antecedent. |
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http://cfcc.net/rmorris/pronouns.html
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| | Using Pronouns Clearly |
| | Everybody ought to do his or her best. | | | If you do use a singular noun and the context makes the gender clear, then it is permissible to use just "his" or "her" rather than "his or her." See our handout on Non-sexist Language for more information. | | | Because a pronoun REFERS BACK to a noun or TAKES THE PLACE OF that noun, you have to use the correct pronoun so that your reader clearly understands which noun your pronoun is referring to. |
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_pronuse.html
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| | Relative pronoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Other arguments can be relativised using relative pronouns: | | | This suggests that relative pronouns might be a fairly late development in many languages. | | | Those that do tend to use words which originally had other functions; for example, the English which is also an interrogative word. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_pronoun
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| | Pronoun Reference |
| | Pronouns usually refer to other words, called their antecedents because they (should) come before the pronoun. | | | A pronoun should not refer to a title | | | The writer probably wanted the pronoun "this" to refer to the idea of sewing knickers, but since the idea is not in the body of the paper itself, the reference will not make sense. |
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http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/pronref.html
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| | Writing English - Proofreading and Copyediting Services |
| | An interrogative pronoun is used when asking a question (who, whom, whose, which, what). | | | The relative pronouns are who, whoever, whom, whomever, whose, what, whatever, which, whichever, that. | | | They include subjects (I, you, he, she, we, they, it); objects (me, you, him, her, us, them, and possessive pronouns (my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs). |
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http://www.writingenglish.com/pronoun.htm
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| | Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement |
| | Students will be instructed to write the correct pronoun in sentences written on the chalkboard for class work. | | | The teacher will teach the class as a whole group explaining that an antecedent is the noun or pronoun for which another pronoun stands and to which it refers. | | | Homework: study pronoun reference in textbook and work concept check at end of section to turn in tomorrow. |
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http://www.saumag.edu/edavis/PronounLessonPlanmain.htm
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| | Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style — P |
| | pronouns, along with their accompanying modifiers — is who or what does the action of the sentence. | | | The personal pronouns have their own set of possessive forms: my ("belonging to me"), your ("belonging to you"), his ("belonging to him"), her ("belonging to her"), our ("belonging to us"), and their ("belonging to them"). | | | Pronouns, which "stand in for" a noun: he, she, it, they, that. |
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http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/p.html
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| | pronoun |
| | Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as |
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http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/pronoun
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| | pronoun case |
| | Choose who or whom depending upon the function of the pronoun in the sentence. | | | Whom is objective case like the pronouns him, her, them, me, and us. | | | Use whom as the direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition in a sentence. |
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http://wwwnew.towson.edu/ows/procase.htm
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| | The UVic Writer's Guide: Pronoun Agreement |
| | Pronouns are also an issue when using gender-specific language. | | | Many writers believe it is improper to write "him and me," but this is only true in the subjective case. | | | Also, make sure that you are referring to the correct noun. |
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http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/SentProAgr.html
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| | pronoun - English Language Forum (ESL) |
| | For example, the word "We" is a personal pronoun in form and a subject in function. | | | I would have thought that "All" in the second sentence would be a pronoun. | | | "We" is considered to be a pronoun and "All" can also be a pronoun. |
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http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/8831-pronoun.html#post47967
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| | Pronouns (Pronoun Reference) |
| | A possessive antecedent may be used only for a possessive pronoun. | | | However, neither the word team nor the word members is used in the sentence. | | | , so the pronoun has no explicit antecedent. |
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http://owlet.letu.edu/grammarlinks/pronouns/pronoun1d2.html
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| | EditFast Grammar Resource: Pronouns: Pronoun Reference: Pronoun Agreement |
| | The most obvious gender-agreement error would be to refer to a man as "she" or to a woman as "he." But few people make such obvious errors. | | | In addition, relative pronouns must agree with their antecedents in one other way: human or person pronouns must be used to refer to people, and non-person or thing pronouns must be used to refer to things other than people. | | | The more subtle gender-agreement errors have to do with using all masculine pronouns (he, him, his) or all feminine pronouns (she, her) to refer to antecedents such as managers, secretaries, workers, one, and so on-antecedents that are neutral in terms of gender. |
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http://www.editfast.com/english/grammar/pronouns/pronoun_reference/pronouns_antecedents_rules_3.htm
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| | The pronoun |
| | The possessive pronoun is expressed through the fourth case if true possession is meant. | | | Translation can be with self, but usually in English, elge would be translated by a regular pronoun. | | | ,elge is used to refer to an already mentioned (pro)noun in the same sentence. |
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http://www.uteged.com/aulingese/pronouns.htm
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| | Spanish Grammar: relative pronoun - quien |
| | Notice that the "personal a" is used with "quien" but is not used with "que." | | | Continuing with the subject of "relative pronouns," remember that pronouns are words that refer to a noun. | | | The relative pronoun "quien" is used only to refer to people, and has a plural form "quienes." (There is no masculine/feminine distinction.) |
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http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/relproquien.htm
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| | Pronoun Agreement |
| | Finally, some indefinite pronouns take their number from their antecedents. | | | However, to be correct in traditional Standard English, when these indefinite pronouns act as the antecedents for personal pronouns, the personal pronouns must be in the singular form: | | | Often the antecedent is the object of a preposition in a prepositional phrase that follows the pronoun. |
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http://www.octech.org/icourses/eng/eng101/paagr.html
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| | Grammar Rock - Pronoun |
| | Now Rufus has a sister named Rafaella Gabriela Sarsaparilla, If she found a kangaroo I'd say to you "She found a kangaroo that followed her home And now it is hers." But I can't say that... | | | Because I got pronouns, I can say, "He found a kangaroo that followed him home And now it is his." You see, "he", "him" and "his" are pronouns Replacing the noun "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla", A very proper noun, And "it" is a pronoun replacing the noun "kangaroo"! | | | I have mine and she has hers and he has his, Do you have yours? |
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http://www.postdiluvian.org/~gilly/Schoolhouse_Rock/HTML/grammar/pronoun.html
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| | AskOxford: personal pronoun |
| | It would perhaps be more accurate to say that objective personal pronouns are now used in all cases where the pronoun is not explicitly subjective, and it is therefore acceptable to say she’s taller than him and I didn’t do as well as her. | | | I, we, they, he, and she are subjective personal pronouns, which means they are used as the subject of the sentence, often coming before the verb (she lives in Paris). | | | Me, us, them, him, and her, on the other hand, are objective personal pronouns, which means that they are used as the object of a verb or preposition (John hates me). |
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http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/personalpronoun?view=uk
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| | Pronoun-antecedent agr |
| | The relative pronouns (who, which, that) all have the same form when used as subjects whether they are singular, plural, first, second or third person. | | | More will be said about pronoun case in a later section of this chapter. | | | The antecedent's relationship to the pronoun must be absolutely clear, or the reader will be confused. |
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http://www.zianet.com/jkline/u3pnagr.htm
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| | Agreement: pronoun-antecedent |
| | With subject-verb agreement, we also talked about indefinite pronouns ("-one," "-body," and "-thing" words). | | | With pronouns, we need to look at the "-one" and "-body" words again. | | | How about a "Self-Test" to see if you really understand. |
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http://www.aliscot.com/bigdog/agreement_pa.htm
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| | Reference |
| | If you can't find the word or there seem to be two or more words that it could refer to, you have a problem with reference. | | | If you recall, a pronoun is a word that renames (takes the place of) another word (the antecedent). | | | How about a "Self-Test" to see if you really understand. |
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http://aliscot.com/bigdog/reference.htm
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| | Language Miniatures 124: The pronoun 'y'all' |
| | Look at some facts about the English pronoun system. | | | We can hardly avoid the conclusion that it is the necessity of inventing a second-person plural pronoun that is canceling out any remaining southernness. | | | But there is a major innovation that is not developing - at least not yet - and that is acceptance of any independent second-person plural pronoun in formal written English. |
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http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/miniatures/yall.htm
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| | French Grammar Exercises |
| | For all questions, the object noun(s) in the given sentence must be replaced by the proper pronoun(s). | | | Be aware: certain verbs take an indirect object in French while their English equivalents take a direct object. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/~fms5/fpro.html
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