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pronoun
[ proh-noun ]
noun
- any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, it, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.
pronoun
/ ˈprəʊˌnaʊn /
noun
- one of a class of words that serves to replace a noun phrase that has already been or is about to be mentioned in the sentence or context pron
pronoun
- A word that takes the place of a noun . She , herself , it , and this are examples of pronouns. If we substituted pronouns for the nouns in the sentence “Please give the present to Karen,” it would read “Please give it to her .”
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Example Sentences
Oh, the heaven and hell wrought by the casual use of a pronoun.
He placed particular emphasis on the pronoun when he spoke the title aloud.
There's UP and US, and UT—an old name for the first (and last) tone, do, and WE (the funnest pronoun) and WO, which is woe.
The pronoun is deliberate: the Sims was one of the first games to be played by women in significant numbers.
He asks, “What magic is there in the pronoun ‘my,’ that should justify us in overturning the decisions of impartial truth?”
The subject pronoun, when unemphatic, is not expressed, but understood from the termination of the verb.
The relative object pronoun is often repeated as a personal pronoun, so that the verb has its object expressed twice.
The third personal pronoun—he, she, it—in all its cases is especially uncertain in its references.
That is my excuse for the free use of the personal pronoun, not to make prominent the person, but to emphasize the reality.
The disjunctive forms of the pronoun are also sometimes preserved before verbs and adjectives.
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