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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. | | | You will find "who," "whom," and occasionally "which" used to refer to people, and "which" and "what" used to refer to things and to animals. |
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http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/pronouns.html
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| | FOJ Pronoun Tips |
| | The most important thing to know about them is that you don't use first-person pronouns outside of quotations in standard journalistic writing. | | | If you would use he to fill the gap, use who or whoever. | | | NOT: Everyone at the party brought his or her own drinks. |
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http://www.uark.edu/~kshurlds/FOJ/pron.html
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| | KAITABHA Kaitabha and Madhu were two horrible demons, who, according to the Maha-bharata and the Puranas, sprang from the ear of Vishnu while he was asleep at the end of a kalpa, and were about to kill Brahma, who was lying on the lotus springing from Vishnu’s navel. | | | `Black Yavana,’ Yavana meaning a Greek or foreigner.) A Yavana or foreign king who led an army of barbarians to Mathura against Krishna. | | | Upon his placing his foot in the water it was seized by a crocodile, but he dragged the creature out and killed it. |
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http://www.mypurohith.com/Encyclopedia/EnclopK.asp
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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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| | Ling 10 |
| | Words called expletives serve as dummy subjects (or, referent-less pronouns). | | | Pronoun reference (Readings, Dummies Chapters 10 and 23.) | | | The referent is the person or thing to which the pronoun refers. |
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http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~tsanchez/Ling10PronounsChanges.htm
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| | 1.2a - Pronoun & Antecedent |
| | Rewritten: Anyone who was on top of things would know that. | | | Disagreement: If anyone was on top of things, they would know that. | | | "Mary" is the antecedent of the pronoun "she". |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/speech/1_2a.htm
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| | Pronoun |
| | Although using they as a singular pronoun when sex is not known or is not important is often condemned by traditionalists, it is often found in informal speech. | | | A Personal pronoun refers to people or things. | | | The disjunctive pronoun is the form used when the pronoun stands on its own, or with only the verb "to be": for example in answer to the question "Who wrote this page?". |
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http://www.yotor.com/wiki/en/pr/Pronoun.htm
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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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| | Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 4. The Pronoun. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language |
| | I incline to think that it is some such subconscious logic, and not the analogy of “it is he,” as Sweet argues, that has brought “it is me” to conversational respectability, even among rather careful speakers of English. | | | All these liberties with the personal pronouns, however, fade to insignificance when put beside the thoroughgoing confusion of the case forms in vulgar American. | | | I have heard “who else’s wife was there?” and “if it ain’t his’n, it ain’t nobody here else’s.” Finally, I note that he’s seems to be assimilating with his. |
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http://www.bartelby.com/185/41.html
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| | Pronouns Practice Test Part 1 |
| | The woman _____ wrote that book is a reporter for the New York Times. | | | Some nineteenth-century artists were offended by this violence and refused to illustrate the tale; thus, it was them, not the publisher, who believed that a story for children should have a happier ending. | | | Stephen W. Hawking's 1988 book, A Brief History of Time became an immediate best-seller, which is surprising. |
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http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/tests/pronouns/pronouns.html
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| | Pronoun Reference to a Company |
| | The issue seems more subtle if the pronoun is, say, in a following sentence. | | | Mike, in your example, I would try to identify the person would said "it will be available soon" to avoid the issue completely: | | | Thought I'd address a common (American English) pronoun misusage that I see often in articles. |
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http://weblogs.asp.net/fifteenseconds/archive/2004/07/09/178333.aspx
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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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| | Faulty Pronoun Reference |
| | VAGUE PRONOUN REFERENCE, can confuse readers and obscure the intended meaning. | | | Anyone who reads this sentence would not know which item was to be fixed. | | | Question: Who are "they" mentioned in the sentence? |
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http://wwwnew.towson.edu/ows/modulePRO.htm
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| | July 2001 eDebate Archives: RE: Gender Neutral Pronoun |
| | July 2001 eDebate Archives: RE: Gender Neutral Pronoun | | | This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri May 17 2002 - 13:44:40 EDT | | | Next in thread: Terry West: "Re: Gender Neutral Pronoun" |
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http://www.ndtceda.com/archives/200107/0404.html
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| | Revised: John Kennedy’s biography offers various possibilities for his assassination. | | | Reference to a noun by a pronoun is appropriately placed in the same sentence or the following sentence. | | | EX: In the analysis presented by the researcher, it points out that the experiment contains numerous flaws. |
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http://www.nps.navy.mil/esl/docs/Pronoun's%20antecedent.doc
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| | Gender-neutral pronoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In English, the only gender-specific pronouns are in the third-person singular: he, him, himself, his, she, her, herself, and hers. | | | Interrogative pronouns ("wer", "wessen", "wem", "wen", "welchen" and "was für einen" / "who", "whose", "whom", "who", "which" and "what kind") and indefinite pronouns "jemand" and "niemand" ("somebody" and "nobody") are gender-neutral. | | | All pronouns (except interrogative) can be declined into one of 4 cases, showing their state as subject, possesion, direct or indirect object in the sentence. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun
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| | Who (pronoun) - definition of Who (pronoun) in Encyclopedia |
| | To determine whether who or whom should be used in a sentence, recast the sentence in non-interrogative form and determine whether you would use he or she (nominatives) or him or her (accusatives and datives) instead of who or whom. | | | Traditionally, who has the case forms whose, representing the genitive case, and whom, both the accusative and the dative case. | | | The corresponding interrogative pronouns for non-sentient beings are what and which, and the relative pronouns are that and which, though that and which are sometimes used in contexts where who might be a more suitable choice. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Who_(pronoun)
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| | Relative Clauses |
| | Sentence A/B: That is the hero who won the war. | | | In English, the relative pronouns are who, which, that, whom, and whose. | | | "Who" stands for the noun "hero." "Hero" is called the antecedent of "who." Notice that the antecedent comes immediately before the relative pronoun, to prevent confusion. |
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http://www.southwestern.edu/~carlg/Latin_Web/relativeclauses.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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| | Learn English - English Grammar - Pronouns |
| | The trains were late, they had been delayed. | | | The trains were late, the trains had been delayed. | | | The train was late, it had been delayed. |
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http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/pronountext.htm
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| | Relative Pronoun |
| | All but that can also be interrogative pronouns. | | | In modern English there are five relative pronouns: that, which, who, whom, and whose. | | | A relative pronoun is only found in sentences with more than one clause. |
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http://www.englishplus.com/grammar/00000370.htm
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| | Lynchburg College: Writing Center: Writing Guide: Common Pronoun Problems |
| | Traditionally, he and his were pronouns used to refer to both sexes when the antecedent was unknown. | | | Interrogative Pronouns ask questions and include the following: what, who, whom, whose, which. | | | The most common ones misused are who and whom. |
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http://www.lynchburg.edu/writcntr/guide/grammar/pronouns2.htm
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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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| | Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style — P |
| | The worst are hypocrites who, after attacking the very idea of rules, go on to prescribe their own, usually the opposite of whatever the traditionalists say. | | | 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. |
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http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/p.html
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| | LES PRONOMS |
| | pronoun and to place it in the sentence. | | | This table is to help you find the right pronoun in most cases. | | | How to find the right pronoun and where to put it in the sentence. |
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http://www.hfac.uh.edu/mcl/ta/vandermaliere/Copiepronomsexplication.htm
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| | Pronoun Antecedent Agreement |
| | The police officers who stopped my car were polite. | | | WHO and WHOM: Refer to persons and members of a group who take on "human qualities" | | | Please give the book to the student who has her hand raised. |
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http://grammar.uoregon.edu/agreement/antecedent.html
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| | who - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include who: who's who, whos who, doctor who, dr. | | | Words similar to who: world health organization, more... | | | WHO, who : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info] |
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http://www.onelook.com/?loc=pub&w=who
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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 an implied idea | | | In these revised sentences, there is no doubt about who is doing what. |
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http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/pronref.html
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| | Tricky Points of Pronoun Usage |
| | The pronoun "she" is part of the subject complement, so it is in the subject case. | | | A pronoun should also be in the subject case when it is in apposition to a subject or subject complement, and in the object case when it is in apposition to the object of a verb, verbal, or preposition: | | | In elliptical comparisons, where the writer has left some words out of a sentence, the case of the pronoun at the end of the sentence determines its meaning. |
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http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/prntrcky.html
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| | whose - the possessive pronoun (often confused with "who's" which is contraction for "who is". | | | whom - in formal English the oblique case of who | | | I don't know who these guys are, probably some college bar band, but their sound is crisp, c... |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/Relative_pronoun
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| | Pronouns: Agreement with Antecedent |
| | We should judge people by who they are, not by the color of their skin. | | | The committee has not yet completed its report. | | | When a student is educated, he or she can go far in the world. |
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http://college.hmco.com/english/raimes/digitalkeys/keyshtml/pronoun5.htm
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| | § 16. zero pronoun / indefinite or definite articles. 5. Gender. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996 |
| | The sentence A writer who draws on personal experience for _____ material should not be surprised if the reviewers seize on that fact is actually complete as it stands and needs no pronoun. | | | It is good policy to try sentences like these without the pronoun to see how they sound. | | | And you can use the indefinite article a or an in sentences like A parent who feels _____ child has been treated unfairly should bring the matter up with the principal and Every student handed in _____ assignment. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/64/C005/016.html
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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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| | 330 Grammar: Reflexive Pronouns |
| | Pronouns: What they are and how they work | | | This introduction will explain what the different forms of reflexive pronouns are, and when they are used. | | | If you are not sure about the reflexive pronouns, or you would like some more information, try these pages: |
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http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/reflex.htm
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| | Address to people who is approximately at the same age. | | | It is a polite pronounce, used to address to the elder and same age person. | | | A possessive pronoun indicates that the pronoun is acting as a marker of possession and defines who owns a particular object or person. |
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http://www.seasite.niu.edu/khmer/Reading/intermediate/unit7/grammar7.htm
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| | Announcing a new gender neutral pronoun! |
| | The proposal: Combine the English pronouns She, He, and It into one inclusive politically correct universal pronoun as follows: She he it..... | | | S/h/it would say, "S/h/it went to the market!" This pronoun may also be used with the definite article and as objects of sentences. | | | This new pronoun is derived from pre-existing pronouns used of both genders and entities of non-gender! |
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http://www.holysmoke.org/fem/fem0318.htm
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| | When the group acts as one unit, use a singular pronoun to refer to it. | | | Everyone should take his or her (not their) turn. | | | A collective noun names a group of people or things: family, group, audience, class, number, committee, team, and the like. |
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http://www.cameron.edu/~carolynk/pro_agree.html
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| | MUDDY PRONOUN REFERENCES: these are the situations which create comical or very confusing sentences because your reader is not sure which noun the pronoun is supposed to refer to. | | | Despite the fact that several of these words may seem to refer to zero people or things or multiple people or things, grammatically all of these words are singular, and will only take "he," "she," or "it" for pronouns. | | | This page will discuss maintaining pronoun-antecedent agreement in number and clarity in your sentences when you use prounouns. |
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http://alpha.furman.edu/~moakes/Powerwrite/pronouns.htm
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| | Who |
| | Doctor Who, a British Science fiction television series. | | | A short lived 19th century British Conservative Government (The Who? | | | In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/w/wh/who_1.html
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| | Pronoun |
| | RELATIVE pronouns are similar to the interrogative pronouns but do not ask a question. | | | They are used when the speaker wishes to refer to himself or the person to whom he is speaking. | | | DEMONSTRATIVE pronouns refer to a thing already noted by the speaker, or to indicate a thing clearly. |
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http://www.btinternet.com/~paul.hitchcock1/page5.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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| | refer to in the sentence above—that is, who is the | | | 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. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0885483.html
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| | The Agreeable Russian Pronouns |
| | Fill in the correct form of the pronouns to the left | | | The personal pronouns are irregular (in their vowel movements) but regular in their own way. | | | Otherwise, when you use these pronouns in positions where case is required, just as you have to adjust the ending of the noun, you have to use the appropriate case form of the pronoun. |
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http://www.alphadictionary.com/rusgrammar/pronoun.html
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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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| | 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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| | Basic Noun-Pronoun Agreement |
| | Yet "its" does not make sense when referring to the tapes, since the neutral pronoun "its" implies that the tapes belong to the dog. | | | make another set of teammates who must agree not only on the direction in which they are going to run, but on the type of play they are going to use to score a point. | | | So you could say "her tapes," to show that they belong to the woman, or "his tapes" to refer to the tapes of Elvis' singing.) |
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http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/web+view/5FFA68A13CB7B7CE852569F50051C109?opendocument
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| | Antecedent Agreement |
| | The pronoun must be close enough to the word it is replacing so that your reader knows whom or what you are talking about. | | | Buford saw Longstreet's division coming toward his men. | | | Reynolds' troops responded quickly to the calls for assistance, and soon Buford found himself in the midst of a deadly battle. |
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http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000030.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. | | | Pronoun Case is really a very simple matter. |
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_proncase.html
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| | Open Directory - Society: Transgendered: Academic: Pronouns |
| | Gender-Neutral Pronoun Frequently Asked Questions - A comprehensive discussion of gender-neutral/gender-free pronouns in English over the centuries, such as 'sie', 'hir', 'ey', 'zie', singular their, and many others. | | | Viewpoints from Involvement -- "Thon" - The history and usage of "thon" as a genderless pronoun derived from "that one" is described. | | | Gender in Language - In light of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, this essay examines if gender-neutral language should be used to describe all people in male-dominated fields. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Transgendered/Academic/Pronouns
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