Pronoun

Pronoun

Word that replaces a noun or noun phrase; there are several types including personal pronouns, relative pronouns and indefinite pronouns.

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pronoun

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Word that replaces a noun or noun phrase; there are several types including personal pronouns, relative pronouns and indefinite pronouns.

pronoun

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A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.

pronoun

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A part of speech which stands for a noun: "he", "she", "him", "her", "them". Possessive pronouns express ownership ("his", "hers"). Reflexive pronouns are "herself", "himself", ...

pronoun

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A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. The pronoun should match the noun it replaces in gender and number (plural or singular.) For example, Mr. Brown can be ...

personal pronoun

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pronoun that indicates person

possessive pronoun

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Pronoun that indicates ownership or possession.

antecedent

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An antecedent is a word, phrase or clause that determines what a pronoun that follows refers to.

adjunct

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A type of adverbial indicating the circumstances of the action. Adjuncts may be obligatory or optional. They express such relations as time, place, manner, reason, condition, i.e. ...

lexical item

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A lexical item is a unit of language representing a particular area of meaning which has a unique pattern of co-occurrence with other lexical items. It cannot always be identified ...

press

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According to Merriam-Webster, when "press" is used in a journalistic context it can refer to "news reporters, publishers, and broadcasters." However, when used as a verb, "press" ...

prefix

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A prefix consists of letters placed before a word in order to form a new word. Common prefixes in the English language include: un-, dis-, pre-, post-, and en-. For example, the ...

suffix

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A suffix is a letter or letters added tothe end of a word to modify its meaning. One common suffix is -s or -es, used to change a noun from singular to plural. An example would ...

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