torstai 27. helmikuuta 2014

Pronouns


Terms:

  • pronoun - a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse
  • personal pronoun - substitutes the names of the people or things that perform actions
  • demonstrative pronoun - substitutes a noun when the noun they replace can be understood from the context; also indicates whether the replaced noun is a singular or plural word and gives the location of the object
  • reflexive pronoun - refers back to the subject of the clause in which it is used; is used when the complement of the verb is the same as the subject
  • indefinite pronoun - refers to unspecified 
  • interrogative pronoun - question word when it acts as a pronoun substituting the person or thing being asked about
  • reciprocal pronoun - phrase that shows that an action is two-way
  • relative pronoun - introduces a relative clause


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