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| | What Is A Pronoun? |
 | | The interrogative pronouns are "who," "whom," "which," "what" and the compounds formed with the suffix "ever" ("whoever," "whomever," "whichever," and "whatever"). | | | The relative pronouns are "who," "whom," "that," and "which." The compounds "whoever," "whomever," and "whichever" are also relative pronouns. | | | After reading the pamphlet, Judy threw it into the garbage can. |
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http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/pronouns.html
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| | Writing English - Proofreading and Copyediting Services |
| | The relative pronouns are who, whoever, whom, whomever, whose, what, whatever, which, whichever, that. | | | An interrogative pronoun is used when asking a question (who, whom, whose, which, what). | | | A demonstrative pronoun (this, that, these, those) points out something. |
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http://www.writingenglish.com/pronoun.htm
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| | English Grammar |
| | Relative pronouns such as what, whatever and whoever are normally used without antecedents. | | | As well as being used at the beginning of direct questions, interrogative pronouns and adjectives can also be used at the beginning of indirect questions. | | | The pronouns who, what and which are used as interrogative pronouns. |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramch19.html
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| | UW-Waukesha - OWL - Pronoun Errors |
| | Sometimes there is confusion over what the pronoun's antecedent actually is: | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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http://waukesha.uwc.edu/academics/owl/pronoun.html
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| | PRONOUN PACKET |
| | Neither he nor we (was, were) able to escape. | | | Carol and she (not her) were on the porch. | | | Relative pronouns are not used to ask questions. |
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http://www.readbygrade3.com/pron.html
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| | Pronoun - Antecedent Agreements |
| | These sample sentences tell us some important things about pronouns: | | | In this sentence, he is the antecedent for the referent pronoun his. | | | In this sentence, the pronoun his is called the REFERENT because it “refers back.” |
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http://wwwnew.towson.edu/ows/modulePAA.htm
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| | i - definition of i by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | Thus, in response to the question "Who cut down the cherry tree?" we more colloquially say "Me," even though some grammarians have argued that I must be correct here by analogy to the form "I did"; and few speakers would accept that the sentence What, me worry? | | | 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. | | | But the decision is more problematic in other environments.·When pronouns are joined with other nouns or pronouns by and or or, there is a widespread tendency to use the objective form even when the phrase is the subject of the sentence: Tom and her are not speaking to each other. |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/I
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| | 1.2a - Pronoun & Antecedent |
| | Rewritten: Anyone who was on top of things would know that. | | | "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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| | Gender-neutral pronoun at opensource encyclopedia |
| | "Gender-neutral pronoun" in world wide web people finder » | | | In English, the only gender-specific pronouns are the third-person singular: he, him, himself, his, she, her, herself, and hers. | | | 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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| | Pronoun-antecedent agr |
| | Granted, some of the constructions in this category sound awkward or even ludicrous at times. | | | 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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| | Reference |
| | And as we've said before, if you confuse your readers (and it's not that hard to do! | | | In number 4, the pronoun could be referring to either the tape or the VCR. | | | If the pronoun doesn't clearly refer to its antecedent, you may cause confusion for your readers. |
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http://aliscot.com/bigdog/reference.htm
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| | Lesson Fifteen, Problems with Pronouns |
| | Jim gave Tim just as good advice as [he gave] me. | | | Sometime pronouns are used as appositives in the sentence. | | | This sentence is awkward because we move from third person to second person in the sentence. |
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http://www.longview.k12.wa.us/mmhs/wyatt/homework/grammar/less15.html
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| | Pronoun - definition of Pronoun in Encyclopedia |
| | Fijian, for example, has a dual (two people), a small group plural (3 to 5 people), and a large group plural (more than 5 people). | | | In some languages, a disjunctive pronoun is the form of a pronoun used when it stands on its own, or with only the verb "to be": for example in answer to the question "Who wrote this page?". | | | Japanese and Chinese have no grammatical number whatsoever except in the pronoun system. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Pronoun
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| | Pronoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A pronoun can also be precedent, as "He" is in the sentence: "He gave it to her, John did." | | | This page was last modified 00:59, 28 March 2006. | | | As can be seen by the examples, pronouns are not restricted to personal pronouns. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoun
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| | The UVic Writer's Guide: Pronoun Agreement |
| | Many writers believe it is improper to write "him and me," but this is only true in the subjective case. | | | Pronouns are also an issue when using gender-specific language. | | | In this next sentence, however, the pronoun his refers to one and not to members: |
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http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/SentProAgr.html
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| | Pronoun Antecedent Agreement |
| | Replace the pronoun he with he or she. | | | The pronoun in the following sample sentence is bolded. | | | Even though there is person and number agreement between the antecedent, a person, and the pronoun, he, there is no gender agreement; in other words, the language appears to favor one sex over the other. |
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http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/pronante.html
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| | Pronoun Reference |
| | A pronoun should not refer to an implied idea | | | Pronouns usually refer to other words, called their antecedents because they (should) come before the pronoun. | | | A pronoun should have only one possible antecedent |
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http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/pronref.html
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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. | | | Pronouns, which "stand in for" a noun: he, she, it, they, that. | | | possessive pronouns, such as my, hers, and its, which mean of something or belonging to something; and relative pronouns, such as whose and which, that connect a relative clause to a sentence: "She read the memo, which mentioned the new system." (For a warning on relative pronouns, see |
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http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/p.html
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| | Relative pronoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This suggests that relative pronouns might be a fairly late development in many languages. | | | In English, different pronouns are sometimes used if the antecedent is a human being (as opposed to a non-human or an inanimate object). | | | A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause within a larger sentence. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_pronoun
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| | Lessons 26-30 |
| | Whom is the relative pronoun, and I is also a pronoun. | | | Which is the relative pronoun, and I is also a pronoun. | | | Who, whom, whose, which, and what are interrogative pronouns. |
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http://www.dailygrammar.com/026to030.shtml
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| | pronoun - Columbia Encyclopedia article about pronoun |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/pronoun
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| | Pronoun Case |
| | Pronoun case refers to the form of the pronoun as it appears in the sentence: | | | Most people do not respond to the spoken query "Who is it?" with "It is I." We tend to say "It's me." However, many people do respond to a person on the phone asking for them by name with "This is she." [Unless, of course, the person responding is a male. | | | Now, just to confuse matters further, there are sentences that do allow an objective case pronoun (for example, me, him, her, or them) to appear after the comparative subordinating conjunctions as. |
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http://www.octech.org/icourses/eng/eng101/procs.html
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| | pronoun - English Language Forum (ESL) |
| | I would have thought that "All" in the second sentence would be a pronoun. | | | In short, given, We the people versus All the people, "We" refers to "the people"; the pronoun "We" and the noun "the people" are one and the same, whereas the same cannot be said for "All". | | | "All" is not a personal pronoun; "All" does not refer directly to "the people". |
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http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/8831-pronoun.html#post47967
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| | EditFast Grammar Resource: Pronouns: Pronoun Reference: Pronoun Agreement |
| | 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. | | | 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. |
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http://www.editfast.com/english/grammar/pronouns/pronoun_reference/pronouns_antecedents_rules_3.htm
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| | Pronoun |
| | This example uses "he" in place of "John", so the sentence is less choppy. | | | This is a correct of a possessive pronoun because | | | Subject pronouns are also used after linking verbs. |
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http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/grammar/Pronouns/pronouns.htm
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| | Spanish Grammar: relative pronoun - quien |
| | Relative pronouns are called "relative" because they are "related" to a noun that has previously been stated. | | | The relative pronoun "quien" is used only to refer to people, and has a plural form "quienes." (There is no masculine/feminine distinction.) | | | After a preposition, "que" is only used to refer to things. |
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http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/relproquien.htm
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| | Pronouns |
| | The interrogative pronoun is used to ask a question. | | | Indefinite pronouns refer to persons, places, or things without specifying for certain which one. | | | The personal interrogative pronouns come in the same three cases as the personal pronouns. |
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http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000366.htm
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| | Who is subjective case like the pronouns he, she, they, I, and we. | | | 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. |
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http://wwwnew.towson.edu/ows/procase.htm
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| | Pronoun Agreement |
| | Finally, some indefinite pronouns take their number from their antecedents. | | | Indefinite pronouns: Some indefinite pronouns are always singular. | | | Very often, the relative pronouns that introduce relative clauses (who, which, and that) follow their antecedents immediately. |
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http://www.octech.org/icourses/eng/eng101/paagr.html
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| | AskOxford: personal pronoun |
| | 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). | | | 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. |
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http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/personalpronoun?view=uk
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| | Pronouns and Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement |
| | One of the most frequently asked questions about grammar is about choosing between the various forms of the pronoun who: who, whose, whom, whoever, whomever. | | | In fact, it's been said already, and you can read all about it at the The University of Texas, where a web-site has been dedicated to the use of their in this way in the writings of Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, and other literary greats. | | | Another site dedicated to the "gender-free pronoun" is at Gender-Neutral Pronoun Frequently Asked Questions. |
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http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.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. | | | nor are referred to by a singular pronoun. |
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http://www.saumag.edu/edavis/PronounLessonPlanmain.htm
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| | Unclear Pronoun Reference |
| | Because we cannot tell which of the nouns is the antecedent, this sentence is an unclear pronoun reference outlaw. | | | Unclear pronoun reference makes sentences confusing, vague, and difficult to understand. | | | From this sentence we cannot tell whose children they are. |
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http://ace.acadiau.ca/english/grammar/pronoun.htm
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| | Grammar Rock - Pronoun |
| | 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"! | | | 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... | | | They start shouting out loud pronouns at us, like: "*Who* brought that rhinoceros on the bus?" and "*What* made that horrible noise?" and "Which one of 'em's getting off first?" "Who", "what" and "which" are special pronouns That can ask a question In the sense where you do not know the name of the noun. |
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http://www.postdiluvian.org/~gilly/Schoolhouse_Rock/HTML/grammar/pronoun.html
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| | Pronouns |
| | A subjective pronoun acts as the subject of a sentence—it performs the action of the verb. | | | A pronoun "refers to," or directs your thoughts toward, its antecedent. | | | pronoun - pronoun, in English, the part of speech used as a substitute for an antecedent noun that is clearly... |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0885483.html
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| | COROLLARY THEOREMS - GRAMMAR: PRONOUN |
| | Indefinite Pronoun replaces a noun to which it refers in a vague, indefinite way. | | | However, there are cases when pronoun is ahead of the noun. | | | Relative Pronouns have the same Number and Person as the Antecedent noun, but they have a different Case, depending on their function within the sentence. |
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http://www.corollarytheorems.com/Grammar/pronoun.htm
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| | Language Miniatures 124: The pronoun 'y'all' |
| | Look at some facts about the English pronoun system. | | | A recent article (see note below) addresses all these questions. | | | Over the centuries since then, many dialects of English have attempted to fill this awkward gap by inventing a new plural pronoun. |
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http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/miniatures/yall.htm
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| | Pronouns - Glossary Definition - UsingEnglish.com |
| | 5 Interrogative Pronoun - who, what, where, etc.. | | | 2 Personal Pronoun - I, you, he, she, etc.. | | | There are a number of different kinds of pronouns in English. |
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http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/pronoun.html
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| | Pronouns (Pronoun Reference) |
| | , so the pronoun has no explicit antecedent. | | | Revise the sentence by replacing the pronoun with a noun: | | | When a pronoun lacks a clear and explicit antecedent, you have a |
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http://owlet.letu.edu/grammarlinks/pronouns/pronoun1d2.html
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| | Pronoun Rules |
| | indefinite pronouns refer to nonspecific persons or things. | | | The noun to which the pronoun refers is the antecedent. | | | An unnecessary pronoun shift occurs when a writer uses one kind of pronoun to refer to someone or something and then shifts to another kind of pronoun for no apparent reason. |
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http://cfcc.net/rmorris/pronouns.html
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| | Agreement: pronoun-antecedent |
| | With subject-verb agreement, we also talked about indefinite pronouns ("-one," "-body," and "-thing" words). | | | An antecedent is what we call the noun that comes before the pronoun. | | | In number 1, neighbors is the antecedent; their is the pronoun. |
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http://www.aliscot.com/bigdog/agreement_pa.htm
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| | French Grammar Exercises |
| | When a sentence includes both a direct and an indirect object pronoun, the order is indirect followed by direct. | | | For all questions, the object noun(s) in the given sentence must be replaced by the proper pronoun(s). | | | Both the direct and the indirect object precede the verb to which they are logically related. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/~fms5/fpro.html
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| | Fill in the blanks with the appropriate pronoun cases. |
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http://www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/quiz/pronoun.htm
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| | The pronouns THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE, and WHICH do not change form. | | | Comparisons are really shorthand sentences which usually omit words, such as those in the parentheses in the sentences above. | | | In compound structures, where there are two pronouns or a noun and a pronoun, drop the other noun for a moment. |
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_proncase.html
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| | The pronoun |
| | ,elge is used to refer to an already mentioned (pro)noun in the same sentence. | | | See for further information about this the noun page. | | | The case of the article is determined by the function the relative pronoun has in the adjectival clause. |
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http://www.uteged.com/aulingese/pronouns.htm
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| | Using Pronouns Clearly |
| | 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. | | | NOTE: Many people find the construction "his or her" wordy, so if it is possible to use a plural noun as your antecedent so that you can use "they" as your pronoun, it may be wise to do so. | | | Everybody ought to do his or her best. |
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_pronuse.html
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| | What is a pronoun? |
| | This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003. | | | A language may have several classes of pronouns. | | | Here are some features found in various pronominal systems: |
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http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAPronoun.htm
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