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	Personal pronouns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Personal pronouns are pronouns that refer to objects of a sentence, usually (but not always), people or animals.
		In English, it is usual to use personal pronouns when the context is already understood, or could easily be understood by reading the sentences that follow.
		In French, pronouns include tu, vous, ils, elles, lui, toi, moi, etc. There are different pronouns used for different genders and numbers of people, and unlike English where "them" and "they" are used for every object whether it is masculine or feminine, in French the plural forms vary according to gender.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Personal_pronouns (996 words)

	Possessive pronoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A possessive pronoun is a part of speech that attributes ownership to someone or something.
		Some languages have neither possessive pronouns nor possessive adjectives, and express possession by declining the personal pronouns in the genitive or possessive case, or by using possessive suffixes.
		It should be noted however that precisely because a possessive adjective constitutes a determiner phrase, and not a noun phrase, strictly speaking its lexical category is determiner, not pronoun.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Possessive_pronoun (254 words)

	Writer's Block - Writing Tips - Personal Pronouns
		English personal pronouns have three inflections related to the purpose they serve in a sentence or phrase: nominative, accusative, and possessive.
		The accusative form is used when the pronoun is the object of a sentence or a preposition, representing a person or thing that is affected by an action.
		Another reason is that the second person singular and plural (you) and the third person singular neuter (it) have the same form for both the subject and the object.
	www.writersblock.ca /tips/monthtip/tipoct98.htm (649 words)

	Everything about Pronoun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Old Saxon language brought to Britain by Germanic settlers from various parts of northwest Germany.
		English is the most widely learned and used foreign language in the world, and as such, many linguists believe it is no longer the exclusive cultural emblem of "native English speakers", but rather a language that is absorbing aspects of cultures worldwide as it grows in use.
		An objective pronoun functions as the target of a verb, as distinguished from a subjective pronoun, which is the initiator of a verb.
	wikimiki.org /en/pronoun (11443 words)

	English Grammar
		Thus, I is referred to as the first person singular; we is referred to as the first person plural; you is referred to as the second person; he, she and it are referred to as the third person singular; and they is referred to as the third person plural.
		The pronoun he is used to refer to male antecedents, and the pronoun she is used to refer to female antecedents.
		The rules for the agreement of pronouns with their antecedents are the same for pronouns in the objective case as for the corresponding pronouns in the subjective case.
	www.fortunecity.com /bally/durrus/153/gramch18.html (2226 words)

	§ 52. pronouns, personal. 1. Grammar. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
		A number of usage problems involving personal pronouns are questions of which case to use in a given situation.
		When pronouns joined by a conjunction occur as the object of a preposition such as between, according to, or like, many people use the nominative form where the traditional grammatical rule would require the objective.
		When pronouns are joined with other nouns or pronouns by and or or, there is a widespread tendency to use the objective form even when the phrase is the subject of the sentence: Robert and her are not speaking to each other.
	bartleby.com /64/C001/052.html (1365 words)

	HLW: Sentences: Subjects
		In English the most common pattern for be states with only one participant uses the verb be (which takes the different forms am, is, are, was, were, etc.) followed by a predicate NP or adjective.
		For most personal pronouns, the subject in English also has a special form that it does not take elsewhere in the sentence: I (rather than me), he (rather than him), she (rather than her), we (rather than us), they (rather than them).
		Another possibility in English (and many other languages have a similar possibility) is for an adjective or NP to be used in both the state and event sentence, with the verb be for the state and the verb become or get for the event.
	www.indiana.edu /~hlw/Sentences/subjects.html (1716 words)

	A History of the English Language
		English is the chief language of world publishing, science and technology, conferencing, and computer storage as well as the language of international air traffic control (121).
		New English is a derivative of the dialect of medieval London.
		English is currently acknowledged as the universal language of diplomacy and science.
	linguistics.byu.edu /classes/ling450ch/reports/english2.html (2437 words)

	E-Intro to Old English - 5. Pronouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The pronouns you will meet with most often are the personal pronouns (with the closely related possessive adjectives) and the demonstratives.
		Notice that the same patterns occur here as in the third-person pronouns: neuter nominative and accusative forms are the same, masculine and neuter forms are the same in the genitive and dative cases, and feminine genitive and dative forms are the same.
		Personal and demonstrative pronouns receive relatively little stress in most sentences, and as a result they may be pronounced somewhat indistinctly.
	www.wmich.edu /medieval/research/rawl/IOE/inflpron.html (1243 words)

	The Agreeable Russian Pronouns
		However, the 1st and 2nd person singular pronouns decline similarly and the 1st and 2nd plural decline similarly.
		Otherwise, when you use these pronouns in positions where case is required, just as you have to adjust the ending of the noun, you have to use the appropriate case form of the pronoun.
		The dative and prepositional forms are identical in the 1st and 2nd persons singular and the genitive, accusative, and prepositional are identical in the 1st and 2nd persons plural.
	www.alphadictionary.com /rusgrammar/pronoun.html (637 words)

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		Within family contexts, for example, young children are not expected to use the personal pronoun nó (she/he/her/him/it) in reference to older siblings or cousins, as this address form implies the speaker's lack of deference to the addressee or the third party.
		It is the inconsistency of rules specifying the relations of personal pronoun forms to the contexts of their usages that underlies certain ambiguity.
		By replacing the Vietnamese personal pronoun tôi 'I' by English pronouns you and me, the addressor in (6) avoided using the serious implication of the Vietnamese personal pronoun tôi, to indicate, either on a permanent or temporary basis, his preparedness to be interviewed.
	www.educ.utas.edu.au /users/tle/JOURNAL/Articles/Ho/Ho.html (4415 words)

	Hebrew Personal Pronouns
		These personal pronouns are sometimes referred to as “subject” or “independent” pronouns since they 1) function as subjects in clauses (where an implied verb “to be” is implied), and 2) they stand alone without further inflections (i.e., they are independent).
		In these cases it is not necessary to translate these pronouns (though it is optional, of course - you could translate the first example as “The father, he is the king,” and the second as “The Torah, it is truth,” but it is simpler to leave them untranslated in English).
		In Hebrew, this form of expression is normally communicated using the personal pronoun in conjunction with a verb, for emphasis.
	www.hebrew4christians.com /Grammar/Unit_Six/Personal_Pronouns/personal_pronouns.html (493 words)

	Exploring Language: Word Class: Pronouns [English Online]
		Traditionally, a pronoun was said to be a word that stood for a noun, from the Latin pro, meaning "for" or "in place of".
		Pronoun gender is not an issue in Mâori, where there is only one word, ia, for "he" or "she".
		At the conclusion he said, "You'll have to fix your chart 'cause in English one person is 'you', but two or more has an 's' and you say 'yous'".
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/resources/exp_lang/pronouns.html (1218 words)

	Pronominal Anaphora Translation into Spanish
		For example, the pronoun it with subject function was translated into the Spanish pronoun él if its antecedent was of the animal type and masculine; on the other hand, if its antecedent was of the object type and masculine, it was translated into the Spanish pronoun éste; and so on.
		Pronouns judged as acceptable by the translator were considered correctly translated; otherwise, they were considered incorrectly translated.
		All the instances of the English pronouns he and she (always with subject function) were correctly translated into their Spanish equivalents él and ella.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/project/jair/pub/volume18/peral03a-html/node19.html (1414 words)

	Cases, Inflection, and Pronouns
		We'll look at the way these cases are used in Old English in the next part of these notes, although some of them won't be difficult at all: the nominative, genitive, and accusative cases are almost the same as their English counterparts.
		For example, in the English sentence "The tree fell on my car", the "tree" is in the nominative case because it's the subject of the verb "fell".
		In Old English, the word for "girl" would be in the dative case, and so would have the dative case ending of the declension to which the word "girl" belongs.
	lonestar.texas.net /~jebbo/learn-as/ch2.htm (2214 words)

	Personal Pronouns in Chinese and English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pronouns constitute a special class in Chinese with their peculiar characteristics that make a vague picture of the class.
		Based upon the case study and the sample statistics, this paper provides a detailed functional description of the personal pronoun, an important component of the class of the pronouns, which reveals the distribution and type of Chinese personal pronouns.
		Besides, the Chinese personal pronoun is compared with its English counterpart within the framework that consists of some pragmatic parameters, including (a) the social deixis, (b) inflection, (c) emphasis, (d) inclusiveness and (e) omission.
	www.unm.edu /~hdls/hdls-2/gugang.html (161 words)

	PRONOUNS -BUSINESS SPANISH TUTORIALS -
		Personal pronouns can be used as subjects of a sentence.
		A pronoun is used in order to avoid confusion when verb forms present ambiguity.
		Pronouns are always used when there are 2 verbs and 2 subjects.
	www.businessspanish.com /LECCION/pronoun.htm (253 words)

	§ 52. pronouns, personal. 1. Grammar. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
		This entry treats personal pronouns only; usage issues involving interrogative, relative, and indefinite pronouns are addressed at entries for specific words (that, who, etc.).
		Even if everyone could follow it, in informal contexts the nominative pronoun often sounds pedantic and even ridiculous, especially when the verb is contracted.
		Shakespeare can hardly have violated a rule of formal English grammar, since he and his contemporaries studied Latin grammar, not English.
	www.bartleby.com /64/C001/052.html (1365 words)

	PRONOUN FACTS AND INFORMATION
		In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a pro-form that substitutes for a noun phrase.
		the word "your" is a possessive adjective, not a pronoun.
		the word "this" is not a pronoun, but a demonstrative adjective, also called ''determinative demonstrative''.
	www.abusinessforme.com /pronoun (207 words)

	The verie height (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Reformation contributed to the ascendancy of English because the religious disputations were for the most part conducted in English, and as a consequence of Reformation, translations of the Bible into the vernacular now had government and Church sanction.
		The vocabulary is adequate to the demands made on it (in the case of English, this meant that it had to expand its lexicon).
		The expansion of the English lexicon (vocabulary) during this period was to generate considerable controversy.
	www.ebbs.english.vt.edu /hel/helmod/ren.html (2022 words)

	PERSONAL PRONOUNS FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The English personal pronouns including nonstandard ones and related pronouns and adjectives are shown below.
		Possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives are used to show ownership.
		# In Scotland, ''yous'' is often used for the second person plural (particularly in the Central Belt area).
	www.factagent.com /Personal_pronouns (1087 words)

	Homework on Chinese (lecture by Prof
		Consider the set of personal pronouns in Mandarin Chinese (due to web limitations, tone is not notated.) They are arranged below in the standard manner grammars use for any language.
		Name two morphological distinctions that are shown with obligatory suffixes on (regular) English words but which are not marked in Chinese.
		In English, the tone (pitch) of the voice rises (goes from low to high) on the word horse in the first sentence.
	courses.washington.edu /lin100/chinesehw.htm (272 words)

	"Of Saxons, Angles, and Jutes"
		Once we move into a discussion of Old English, we are moving away from the more speculative (but systematic) endeavors of language reconstruction (Indo-European) into an area for which we do have more solid footing--in the form of written documents.
		The terms English, England, and East Anglia are derived--fairly transparently--from words referring to the Angles: Englisc (vernacular writers referred to themselves by this term), Angelcynn, and Englaland.
		OE retained the Germanic dual pronoun, as seen here in line 48 of "The Dream of the Rood" (the speaker is the Cross, and the intimate relationship the dual signifies is that of the Cross and the crucified Christ):
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /hel/helmod/oe.html (2212 words)

	English Grammar: English Pronouns (EnglishClub.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pronouns are small words that take the place of a noun.
		Pronouns are words like: he, you, ours, themselves, some, each...
		If we didn't have pronouns, we would have to repeat a lot of nouns.
	www.englishclub.com /grammar/pronouns.htm (55 words)

	Present-Day English(es)
		Any language which is closely related to another in a portion of its vocabulary or structure could, when looked at from the perpective of the other language, be said to be a debased, corrrupt or ridiculous version of the other language.
		The pronoun paradigm is greatly reduced: e.g., Chinese Pidgin English has three pronouns--first, second and third person--but no number distinctions.
		The children of West Indian immigrants in some of the large cities of England (such as London and Birmingham), who early in life exhibit no evidence of creole linguistic features, have been observed to acquire such features in their teens, as part of the process of identity formation.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /hel/helmod/pde.html (1305 words)

	PERSONAL - Online Information article about PERSONAL
		numbers and persons except the dual were in full use throughout, to Coptic; sn, however, giving way to a new suffix, -w, which See also:
		It is associated with a series for the second and third persons: nt-k, nt-t, nt f, nt-in, andc.; but from their See also:
		history, use and form, it seems probable that the last are of later formation, and are not to be connected with the Semitic pronouns (chiefly of the 2nd person) resembling them.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PER_PIG/PERSONAL.html (383 words)

	Non-discriminatory language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The English language does not have a generic, singular, personal pronoun which refers to both females and males in a non-specific way.
		Traditionally, the English language used the masculine pronouns - he, him and his when referring generically to both females and males.
		The personal pronoun his assumes the inclusion of female technicians.
	ceds.vu.edu.au /webbja/language3.htm (458 words)

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