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    others are demonstrative pronouns and indefinite pronouns. Other members are disputed (see below). Pronouns in formal modern English. Those types that are...
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  • a pronoun is "you", which can be either singular or plural. Sub-types include personal and possessive pronouns, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, demonstrative...
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    personal pronouns of English, see Old English pronouns. The pronoun you (and its other forms) can be used as a generic or indefinite pronoun, referring...
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  • For specific details of the personal pronouns used in the English language, see English personal pronouns. Pronoun is a category of words. A pro-form is...
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  • equivalents of "who, when, where" were used only as interrogative pronouns and indefinite pronouns, as in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit. Besides þā ... þā ..., other...
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  • Modern English had two second-person personal pronouns: thou, the informal singular pronoun, and ye, the plural (both formal and informal) pronoun and the...
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  • There are also Cantonese pronouns and Hokkien pronouns. Chinese pronouns differ somewhat from English pronouns and those of other Indo-European languages...
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    distinct Old English dual forms were lost), but pronouns, unlike nouns, retained distinct nominative and accusative forms. Third person pronouns also retained...
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  • The Spivak pronouns are a set of gender-neutral pronouns in English promulgated on the virtual community LambdaMOO based on pronouns used in a book by...
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  • full range of English pronouns, include the subject pronouns he or she (23), the object pronouns him or her (24), the possessive pronoun his or hers (25)...
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  • pronouns. Neopronouns may be words created to serve as pronouns, such as "ze/hir", or derived from existing words and turned into personal pronouns,...
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  • others is known as it. Generic antecedents Gender-specific pronoun English personal pronouns Homo and Mensch are Latin and German words respectively which...
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    Preferred gender pronouns (also called personal gender pronouns, often abbreviated as PGP) are the set of pronouns (in English, third-person pronouns) that an...
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  • language had demonstrative pronouns, equivalent to this and that, but did not have the definite article the. The Old English period is considered to have...
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    The pronoun who, in English, is an interrogative pronoun and a relative pronoun, used primarily to refer to persons. Unmarked, who is the pronoun's subjective...
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    pronoun. He suggests that pronouns used as "variables" in this way are more appropriately regarded as homonyms of the equivalent referential pronouns...
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    Spanish pronouns in some ways work quite differently from their English counterparts. Subject pronouns are often omitted, and object pronouns come in...
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  • context. In English, pronouns mostly function as pro-forms, but there are pronouns that are not pro-forms and pro-forms that are not pronouns.: 239  Examples...
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  • pronoun is a pronoun which does not have a specific, familiar referent. Indefinite pronouns are in contrast to definite pronouns. Indefinite pronouns...
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  • while others call my a possessive adjective and mine a possessive pronoun. Other pronouns may be capitalized when referring to the Deity ("God's in His heaven")...
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    Ireland, to distinguish from the singular "you". In Old English, the use of second-person pronouns was governed by a simple rule: þū addressed one person...
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  • or the object of a preposition. Object pronouns contrast with subject pronouns. Object pronouns in English take the objective case, sometimes called...
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    pronouns (such as woman, daughter, husband, uncle, he and she) to refer specifically to persons or animals of one or other sexes and neuter pronouns (such...
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  • Non-reflexive use of reflexive pronouns is rather common in English. Most of the time, reflexive pronouns function as emphatic pronouns that highlight or emphasize...
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  • That means that pronouns can seldom be translated from English to Japanese on a one-to-one basis. The common English personal pronouns, such as "I", "you"...
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  • You (redirect from You (pronoun))
    Proto-Indo-European *yu- (second-person plural pronoun). Old English had singular, dual, and plural second-person pronouns. The dual form was lost by the twelfth...
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  • personal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, relative pronouns, interrogative pronouns, and some others, mainly indefinite pronouns. The full set of English pronouns...
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  • French personal pronouns Intensive pronoun Irish morphology Subjective pronoun Weak pronoun Copula John Collinson Nesfield (1922). English Grammar, Past...
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  • the Bible. English personal pronouns Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns Generic antecedent Third-person pronoun See reverential...
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  • languages such as Hindi, the relative pronouns are distinct from the interrogative pronouns. In English, different pronouns are sometimes used if the antecedent...
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