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  Pronoun - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a word that usually takes the place of a noun or noun phrase that was previously mentioned (such as "she", "it") or that refers to something or someone ("I", "me", "you").
Pronouns are often one of the basic parts of speech of the language.
Japanese has several pronouns for each grammatical person, to be used in different contexts according to the rank, social standing, age, etc. of the speaker and the hearer (as well as his/her gender).
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 Interrogative word - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An interrogative word (also known simply as an interrogative) is a function word used for the item questioned in a question.
It is also called a wh-word in the field of linguistics because most of the interrogative words in English start with wh-.
Interrogative words can also be used as relative pro-forms in English.
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 Pronoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a pro-form that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase with or without a determiner, such as you and they in English.
A pronoun used for the item questioned in a question is called an interrogative pronoun, such as who.
Reflexive pronouns are used as the object of a sentence when the subject and object match.
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 Pronoun
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a word that usually takes the place of a noun previously mentioned, such as "I", "me", "she", "it", and so on.
Pronouns are one of the basic parts of speech, along with nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
The French possessive pronouns (mon, ma, mes, ton, ta, tes, son, sa, ses, notre, notre, nos, votre, votre, vos, leur, leur, leurs) are technically adjectives because they decline into masculine, feminine and plural forms and further agree with their heads (not their antecedents).
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/pronoun.html   (1025 words)

  
 Chapter 29   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The forms of the interrogative pronoun are even closer to that of the relative pronoun, which should bring you relief even as it causes some alarm.
Interrogative questions ask a question, so if you see what looks to be a relative pronoun punctuated with a question, it’s probably an interrogative pronoun.
The problem is quod, which is the neuter singular and accusative relative pronoun as well as the conjunction translated "because." As with interrogative pronouns, the trick is to know whether the quod staring you down is a relative pronoun or a conjunction.
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 What Is A Pronoun?
The demonstrative pronouns are "this," "that," "these," and "those." "This" and "that" are used to refer to singular nouns or noun phrases and "these" and "those" are used to refer to plural nouns and noun phrases.
The interrogative pronouns are "who," "whom," "which," "what" and the compounds formed with the suffix "ever" ("whoever," "whomever," "whichever," and "whatever").
An intensive pronoun is a pronoun used to emphasise its antecedent.
www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/pronouns.html   (1695 words)

  
 Pronouns
Grammarians classify pronouns into several types, including the personal pronoun, the demonstrative pronoun, the interrogative pronoun, the indefinite pronoun, the relative pronoun, the reflexive pronoun, and the intensive pronoun.
A possessive pronoun indicates that the pronoun is acting as a marker of possession.
Pronouns and verbs must agree in number, so this is testing proper use of singular and plural personal pronouns.
newton.uor.edu /FacultyFolder/Rider/pronouns.htm   (2221 words)

  
 Pronoun -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A pronoun used for the item questioned in a question is called an (additional info and facts about interrogative pronoun) interrogative pronoun, such as who.
In some cases the information about the antecedent is preserved in the (A word that serves as the predicate of a sentence) verb (through person/number (A change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function) inflection).
(A personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent) Reflexive pronouns are used as the (A tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow) object of a sentence when the (The subject matter of a conversation or discussion) subject and object match.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/pronoun.htm   (1242 words)

  
 interrogative pronoun - infos
An interrogative pronoun is a pronoun used in order to ask a question.
pronoun, the demonstrative pronoun, the interrogative pronoun, the indefinite pronoun, the relative pronoun, the reflexive pronoun, and the intensive pronoun...
the first qui/que is the interrogative pronoun determined by the choice of person/thing...
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 Pronouns
A demonstrative pronoun may look like a demonstrative adjective, but it is used differently in a sentence: it acts as a pronoun, taking the place of a noun.
An interrogative pronoun may look like an interrogative adjective, but it is used differently in a sentence: it acts as a pronoun, taking the place of a noun.
An indefinite pronoun may look like an indefinite adjective, but it is used differently in a sentence: it acts as a pronoun, taking the place of a noun.
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 'Interrogative Pronoun' @ encyclopaediaOnline: the FREE online encyclopaedia (encyclopedia), dictionary, and grammar ...
An interrogative pronoun is a pronoun used to ask a question.
Note that all of these may also be used as relative pronouns.
However, a relative pronoun may be found in a question; an interrogative pronoun is only found in a question.
www.encyclopaediaonline.com /article.asp?topic=Interrogative+Pronoun   (106 words)

  
 Pronouns
is a reflexive pronoun that intensifies, or emphasizes, the noun or pronoun it refers to.
The form of a personal pronoun indicates its number (singular or plural), its person (first, second, third), its case (nominative, possessive, or objective), and its gender (masculine, feminine, or neuter).
The person of a pronoun indicates whether that pronoun is speaking, is spoken to, or is spoken about.
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 The Questionable Interrogative Pronouns
The boldface words in the previous sentence are the English interrogative pronouns; their Russian counterparts are listed on the right-hand side of the following table, taken from the demonstrative pronoun page.
Since interrogative pronouns are naturally drawn to the beginning of the sentence, they almost always begin with a capital letter.
Interrogative and relative pronouns are identical in form and occupy the identical position at the beginning of the clause.
www.alphadictionary.com /rusgrammar/interrog.html   (805 words)

  
 French Grammar Exercises
In the long forms, the first qui/que is the interrogative pronoun determined by the choice of person/thing; the second qui/que is a relative pronoun determined by its grammatical function in the clause (subject or object).
Improper choice of the interrogative pronoun with a person that is the direct object of the clause (long form).
Proper choice of the interrogative pronoun with a person that is the direct object of the clause (long form).
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 English Grammar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
When the interrogative pronoun is the object of the verb or the object of a preposition, inverted word order must be used, with the first auxiliary preceding the subject of the verb.
When the interrogative word is the object of a verb or preposition, or modifies the object of a verb or preposition, the word order of an indirect question differs from that of a direct question.
As illustrated in the preceding examples, when the interrogative word is the object of a verb or preposition, or modifies the object of a verb or preposition, the first auxiliary precedes the subject in a direct question, but the subject precedes the verb in an indirect question.
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 Pronoun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pronouns are unusual in English in that, unlike the nouns they replace, they are inflected; i.e., there are different versions of the word depending on the function it is serving in the sentence, so a speaker uses:
Although using they as a singular pronoun when sex is not known or is not important is often condemned by traditionalists, it is often found in informal speech.
Most of these other pronouns can be arranged in a table of correlatives like the one conceived by L. Zamenhof.
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/pr/Pronoun.htm   (997 words)

  
 intensive pronoun - infos
The function of the intensive pronoun is to emphasize or intensify a...
interrogative pronoun, intensive pronoun, demonstrative pronoun, relative pronoun.
the personal pronoun, the demonstrative pronoun, the interrogative pronoun, the indefinite pronoun, the relative pronoun, the reflexive pronoun, and the intensive pronoun.
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 Report Submitted to FAMSI - David Bolles
Interrogative sentences introduced by interrogative pronouns/adverbs have already been looked at in a limited way in Section 45, 46, and 47.
For the sentences in which the interrogative pronoun is an indirect object the word order is (interrogative pronoun) (verb) (direct object).
In those sentences in which the verb has an auxiliary verb tense indicator the interrogative particle is most frequently placed between the auxiliary verb tense indicator and the verb directly in front of the pronoun.
www.famsi.org /reports/96072/grammar/section21.htm   (1102 words)

  
 Writing English - Proofreading and Copyediting Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A pronoun is any word that can be used as a replacement for a noun, phrase, or clause and refers to something or someone.
A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to itself.
A relative pronoun is a pronoun that introduces a subordinate clause (e.g., This is the cat, which caught the bird in our backyard).
www.writingenglish.com /pronoun.htm   (348 words)

  
 Harper's Writing Center: Pronoun Types
Who and whoever are the subjective case pronouns; whom, whomever are the objective case pronouns, and whose is the possessive case pronoun.
Interrogative pronouns include the same pronouns and cases as relative pronouns; however, instead of introducing dependent clauses, the interrogative pronoun is used to ask questions.
The reflexive pronoun is used to show that the subject (doer) and the object (receiver) of an action are one and the same.
www.harpercollege.edu /writ_ctr/prontype.htm   (303 words)

  
 Pronouns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The relative pronoun begins a subordinate clause and relates the clause to a word in the main clause.
The interrogative pronoun is used to ask a question.
The personal interrogative pronouns come in the same three cases as the personal pronouns.
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 Interrogative and Relative Pronouns
The substantive interrogative pronoun quis, (quae), quid is used independently; the answer to it is always a noun.
The adjective interrogative pronoun qui, quae, quod is used as a determinative; the answer to it is always an adjective.
The declension of the adjective interrogative pronoun is like that of the relative one.
www.orbilat.com /Languages/Latin/Grammar/Latin-Pronouns_Interrogative_and_Relative.html   (103 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(1) interrogative pronouns, (2) interrogative adjectives, and (3) interrogative adverbs.
pronoun is one which is used to ask a question.
have difficulty in determining which form of the pronoun is proper in a given sentence.
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 E N C Y C L O P E D I A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
KA - The interrogative pronounwho?” This word has been raised to the position of a deity.
In the Taittiriya Brahmana, in the Kaushitaki Brahmana, in the Tandya Brahmana, and in the Satapatha Brahmana, wherever interrogative verses occur, the author states that Ka is Prajapati, or the lord of the creatures.
Some of the hymns in which the interrogative pronoun occurred were called Kadvat, i.e., having kad or quid.
www.mypurohith.com /Encyclopedia/EnclopK.asp   (1949 words)

  
 Classis Latine MXIII: Pronomina
The interrogative pronoun differs in form from the relative only in the instances marked by the asterisks.
When the interrogative modifies a noun (or substantival adjective) in its clause, the interrogative adjective must be used rather than the pronoun.
The nominative personal pronoun is often used for emphasis, although the Latin verb does not require the subject to be specified.
www.uark.edu /depts/latin/pronomina.html   (641 words)

  
 Lagelands Grammar - Pronominal adverbs
In the column on the left are examples of sentences where one would use a personal pronoun (first example: hem) or demonstrative pronoun (second and third example: dat and dit) with a verb that does not require a preposition (zien, betalen, leuk vinden).
In the column on the left are examples of sentences where one would use an interrogative pronoun (wat) with a verb that does not require a preposition (betalen, zijn).
indefinite pronouns for inanimate objects are iets and alles.
www.ucl.ac.uk /dutch/grammatica/pronominal_adverbs.htm   (928 words)

  
 Tepa Particles
The pronoun =ni is used for referents near the speaker, while =nu is used for referents which are not near the speaker.
When it is present, the pronoun is understood as an interrogative pronoun, otherwise as an indefinite pronoun.
Note also that the position of the pronoun differs with its grammatical function; as a subject, it is attached to the last word in the sentence, and as a direct object it is attached to the right edge of the verb.
www.langmaker.com /featured/tepapart.htm   (1250 words)

  
 Adjectives
A demonstrative adjective may look like a demonstrative pronoun, but it is used differently in the sentence: it is an adjective, used to modify a noun or pronoun.
An interrogative adjective may look like an interrogative pronoun, but it is used differently in the sentence: it is an adjective, used to modify a noun or pronoun.
An indefinite adjective may look like an indefinite pronoun, but it is used differently in the sentence: it is an adjective, used to modify a noun or pronoun.
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 Report Submitted to FAMSI - David Bolles
In some instances the object pronoun is not actually expressed but implied, the object already having been mentioned in foregoing conversation.
An exception to the order of direct and indirect objects is when the indirect object is a personal pronoun of the type described in Section 34 or a simple indirect object such as a personal name or a simple thing.
In the colonial literature the personal pronoun a is not used in front of the transitive verb.
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