an object pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used typically as a grammatical object: the direct or indirect object of a verb, or the object of a...
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linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed PRO) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns have traditionally...
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subject (nominative), a direct object (accusative), an indirect object (dative), or a reflexive object. Several pronouns further have special forms used...
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In linguistics, a subject pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a verb. Subject pronouns are usually in the nominative case for...
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A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same sentence. In the English language specifically...
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Spanish object pronouns are Spanish personal pronouns that take the function of the object in the sentence. Object pronouns may be both clitic and non-clitic...
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pronoun which introduces the relative clause. The relative clause modifies the noun house. The relative pronoun, "which," plays the role of an object...
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role they play in their clause: subject, direct object, indirect object, or other. Personal pronouns display a number of grammatical particularities and...
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Pro-drop language (redirect from Pronoun dropping language)
A pro-drop language (from "pronoun-dropping") is a language in which certain classes of pronouns may be omitted when they can be pragmatically or grammatically...
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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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Spanish personal pronouns have distinct forms according to whether they stand for the subject (nominative) or object, and third-person pronouns make an additional...
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pronouns, a person will often state the subject and object pronouns (e.g., he/him, she/her, they/them), although sometimes, the possessive pronouns are...
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They (redirect from They (pronoun))
English personal pronouns Genderqueer § Gender pronouns Generic antecedents Object pronoun Possessive pronoun Spivak pronoun Subject pronoun Huddleston, Rodney;...
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The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English...
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third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener. Some languages, such as Slavic, with gender-specific pronouns have...
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A dummy pronoun, also known as an expletive pronoun, is a deictic pronoun that fulfills a syntactical requirement without providing a contextually explicit...
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In French, pronouns are inflected to indicate their role in the sentence (subject, direct object, and so on), as well as to reflect the person, gender...
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forms of the personal pronouns, such as the oblique-case form me, which is used as a direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition, as well...
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In Modern English, it is a singular, neuter, third-person pronoun. In Modern English, it has only three shapes representing five word forms: it: the nominative...
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dictionary. In Modern English, he is a singular, masculine, third-person pronoun. In Standard Modern English, he has four shapes representing five distinct...
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discusses the forms and functions of the personal pronouns in Catalan and Valencian. The "strong" pronouns (Catalan: pronoms forts) in Catalan have the following...
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object, or dative case (дателен падеж). Indirect object pronouns come in both long and short sets. object of a preposition. Only one set of pronouns (long)...
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(/jiː/ , unstressed /jɪ/ or /jə/) is a second-person, plural, personal pronoun (nominative), spelled in Old English as "ge". In Middle English and Early...
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italics. * Whom and which can be the object of a fronted preposition, but not of who or an omitted (Ø) pronoun: The chair on which she sat or The chair...
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Accusative case (redirect from Object case)
receive the direct object of a transitive verb. In the English language, the only words that occur in the accusative case are pronouns: "me", "him", "her"...
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(grammar) Dependency grammar Object pronoun Prepositional pronoun Transitive verb Intransitive verb Oblique case Differential object marking Subject–verb inversion...
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Chinese pronouns are pronouns in the Chinese languages. This article highlights Mandarin Chinese pronouns. There are also Cantonese pronouns and Hokkien...
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grammatical sense; personal pronouns are not limited to people and can also refer to animals and objects (as the English personal pronoun it usually does). The...
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forms: reflexive pronoun, reciprocal pronoun, replacive pronoun (direct and indirect object), intrinsic pronoun (without the pronoun, the structure is...
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