Pronouns

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  1. agree
    show grammatical compatibility
  2. agreement
    in grammar, the correspondence between two words
  3. antecedent
    the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers
  4. case
    nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
  5. demonstrative pronoun
    a pronoun that points out an intended referent
  6. first person
    pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker
  7. function
    what something is used for
  8. gender
    a grammatical category governing agreement
  9. noun
    a content word referring to a person, place, thing or action
  10. number
    the grammatical category that counts the entities involved
  11. objective
    indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions
  12. person
    a grammatical category according to discourse role
  13. personal pronoun
    a pronoun expressing a distinction of person
  14. plural
    the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
  15. possessive
    serving to express or indicate the act of having
  16. pronoun
    a function word that is used in place of a noun
  17. reflexive pronoun
    a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
  18. relative pronoun
    a pronoun (as `that' or `which' or `who') that introduces a relative clause referring to some antecedent
  19. second person
    pronouns and verbs that refer to the person being addressed
  20. singular
    of a grammatical category referring to just one item
  21. third person
    pronouns referring to people besides the speaker or listener
  22. vague
    not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished
Created on Wed Jan 18 11:04:59 EST 2017 (updated Wed Mar 29 15:46:31 EDT 2017)

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