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68 relations: Adjective, Analytic language, Apocope, Aspirated consonant, Central Belt, Christianity, Clitic, Conjunction (grammar), Copula (linguistics), Declension, Deity, Disjunctive pronoun, English possessive, English prepositions, English pronouns, Epicenity, Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns, Gender-neutral language, Generic antecedent, Grammatical case, Grammatical gender, Grammatical number, Grammatical person, Great Vowel Shift, He (pronoun), Historical linguistics, Hypercorrection, I (pronoun), Inanimate whose, Indefinite pronoun, Inflection, Intensive pronoun, It (pronoun), Massachusetts, Middle English, Modern English, Non-binary gender, Noun, Object (grammar), Object pronoun, Oblique case, Old English, Old English grammar, One (pronoun), Personal pronoun, Possessive, Possessive determiner, Predicative expression, Pronoun, Reflexive pronoun, ... Expand index (18 more) »
- Modern English personal pronouns
- Pronouns by language
Adjective
An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.
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Analytic language
An analytic language is a type of natural language in which a series of root/stem words is accompanied by prepositions, postpositions, particles and modifiers, using affixes very rarely.
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Apocope
In phonology, apocope is the loss (elision) of a word-final vowel.
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Aspirated consonant
In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.
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Central Belt
The Central Belt of Scotland is the area of highest population density within Scotland. Depending on the definition used, it has a population of between 2.4 and 4.2 million (the country's total was around 5.4 million in 2019), including multiple Scottish cities; Greater Glasgow, Ayrshire, Falkirk, Edinburgh, Lothian and Fife.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Clitic
In morphology and syntax, a clitic (backformed from Greek ἐγκλιτικός "leaning" or "enclitic"Crystal, David. A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1980. Print.) is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase.
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Conjunction (grammar)
In grammar, a conjunction (abbreviated or) is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses that are called the conjuncts of the conjunctions.
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Copula (linguistics)
In linguistics, a copula /‘kɑpjələ/ (copulas or copulae; abbreviated) is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject complement, such as the word is in the sentence "The sky is blue" or the phrase was not being in the sentence "It was not being cooperative." The word copula derives from the Latin noun for a "link" or "tie" that connects two different things.
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Declension
In linguistics, declension (verb: to decline) is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence, by way of some inflection.
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Deity
A deity or god is a supernatural being considered to be sacred and worthy of worship due to having authority over the universe, nature or human life.
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Disjunctive pronoun
A disjunctive pronoun is a stressed form of a personal pronoun reserved for use in isolation or in certain syntactic contexts.
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English possessive
In English, possessive words or phrases exist for nouns and most pronouns, as well as some noun phrases. English personal pronouns and English possessive are English grammar.
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English prepositions
English prepositions are words – such as of, in, on, at, from, etc. English personal pronouns and English prepositions are English grammar.
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English pronouns
The English pronouns form a relatively small category of words in Modern English whose primary semantic function is that of a pro-form for a noun phrase. English personal pronouns and English pronouns are English grammar and pronouns by language.
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Epicenity
Epicenity is the lack of gender distinction, often reducing the emphasis on the masculine to allow the feminine.
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Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns
A third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener. English personal pronouns and gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns are Modern English personal pronouns.
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Gender-neutral language
Gender-neutral language or gender-inclusive language is language that avoids reference towards a particular sex or gender.
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Generic antecedent
Generic antecedents are representatives of classes, referred to in ordinary language by another word (most often a pronoun), in a situation in which gender is typically unknown or irrelevant.
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Grammatical case
A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording.
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Grammatical gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.
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Grammatical number
In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").
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Grammatical person
In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person).
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Great Vowel Shift
The Great Vowel Shift was a series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700, beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialects of English.
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He (pronoun)
In Modern English, he is a singular, masculine, third-person pronoun. English personal pronouns and he (pronoun) are English grammar and Modern English personal pronouns.
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Historical linguistics
Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time.
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Hypercorrection
In sociolinguistics, hypercorrection is the nonstandard use of language that results from the overapplication of a perceived rule of language-usage prescription.
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I (pronoun)
In Modern English, I is the singular, first-person pronoun. English personal pronouns and i (pronoun) are Modern English personal pronouns.
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Inanimate whose
The inanimate whose refers to the use in English of the relative pronoun whose with non-personal antecedents, as in: "That's the car whose alarm keeps waking us up at night." The construction is also known as the whose inanimate, non-personal whose, and neuter whose. English personal pronouns and inanimate whose are English grammar.
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Indefinite pronoun
An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun which does not have a specific, familiar referent.
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Inflection
In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness.
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Intensive pronoun
An intensive pronoun (or self-intensifier) adds emphasis to a statement; for example, "I did it myself." While English intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, yourself, himself, herself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves) use the same form as reflexive pronouns, an intensive pronoun is different from a reflexive pronoun because it functions as an adverbial or adnominal modifier, not as an argument of a verb.
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It (pronoun)
In Modern English, it is a singular, neuter, third-person pronoun. English personal pronouns and it (pronoun) are Modern English personal pronouns.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.
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Modern English
Modern English, sometimes called New English (NE) or present-day English (PDE) as opposed to Middle and Old English, is the form of the English language that has been spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed by the 17th century.
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Non-binary gender
Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are outside the male/female gender binary.
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Noun
In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.
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Object (grammar)
In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments.
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Object pronoun
In linguistics, an object pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used typically as a grammatical object: the direct or indirect object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.
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Oblique case
In grammar, an oblique (abbreviated; from casus obliquus) or objective case (abbr.) is a nominal case other than the nominative case and, sometimes, the vocative.
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Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
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Old English grammar
The grammar of Old English differs greatly from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected.
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One (pronoun)
One is an English language, gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun that means, roughly, "a person". English personal pronouns and One (pronoun) are Modern English personal pronouns.
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Personal pronoun
Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third person (as he, she, it, they).
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Possessive
A possessive or ktetic form (abbreviated or; from possessivus; translit) is a word or grammatical construction indicating a relationship of possession in a broad sense.
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Possessive determiner
Possessive determiners are determiners which express possession.
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Predicative expression
A predicative expression (or just predicative) is part of a clause predicate, and is an expression that typically follows a copula or linking verb, e.g. be, seem, appear, or that appears as a second complement of a certain type of verb, e.g. call, make, name, etc.
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Pronoun
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.
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Reflexive pronoun
A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same sentence.
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Reverential capitalization
Reverential capitalization is the practice of capitalizing religious words that refer to deities or divine beings in cases where the words would not otherwise have been capitalized.
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She (pronoun)
In Modern English, she is a singular, feminine, third-person pronoun. English personal pronouns and she (pronoun) are English grammar and Modern English personal pronouns.
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Singular they
Singular they, along with its inflected or derivative forms, them, their, theirs, and themselves (also ''themself'' and theirself), is a gender-neutral third-person pronoun. English personal pronouns and Singular they are Modern English personal pronouns.
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Subject (grammar)
A subject is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the predicate, which modifies the subject).
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Subject pronoun
In linguistics, a subject pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a verb.
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T–V distinction
The T–V distinction is the contextual use of different pronouns that exists in some languages and serves to convey formality or familiarity.
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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CamGELThe abbreviation CamGEL is less commonly used for the work than is CGEL, but the latter has also often been used for the earlier work A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language.) is a descriptive grammar of the English language.
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The Language Instinct
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language is a 1994 book by Steven Pinker, written for a general audience.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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They
In Modern English, they is a third-person pronoun relating to a grammatical subject. English personal pronouns and they are Modern English personal pronouns.
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Thou
The word thou is a second-person singular pronoun in English. English personal pronouns and thou are English grammar.
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Verb
A verb is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).
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We
In Modern English, we is a plural, first-person pronoun. English personal pronouns and we are Modern English personal pronouns.
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Who (pronoun)
The pronoun who, in English, is an interrogative pronoun and a relative pronoun, used primarily to refer to persons.
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Y'all
Y'all (pronounced) is a contraction of you and all, sometimes combined as you-all. English personal pronouns and Y'all are Modern English personal pronouns.
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Ye (pronoun)
Ye is a second-person, plural, personal pronoun (nominative), spelled in Old English as "ge". English personal pronouns and Ye (pronoun) are Modern English personal pronouns.
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Yinz
Yinz (see below for other spellings) is a second-person plural pronoun used mainly in Western Pennsylvania English. English personal pronouns and Yinz are Modern English personal pronouns.
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You
In Modern English, the word "you" is the second-person pronoun. English personal pronouns and You are Modern English personal pronouns.
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See also
Modern English personal pronouns
- English personal pronouns
- Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns
- Generic you
- He (pronoun)
- I (pronoun)
- It (pronoun)
- Neopronoun
- One (pronoun)
- Preferred gender pronoun
- She (pronoun)
- Singular they
- Subject complement
- Them
- They
- We
- Y'all
- Ye (pronoun)
- Yinz
- You
Pronouns by language
- Austronesian personal pronouns
- Bulgarian pronouns
- Burmese pronouns
- Cantonese pronouns
- Catalan personal pronouns
- Chinese pronouns
- Circassian pronouns
- Colognian pronouns
- English personal pronouns
- English pronouns
- French personal pronouns
- French pronouns
- German pronouns
- Hindi pronouns
- Hokkien pronouns
- Japanese pronouns
- Korean pronouns
- Macedonian pronouns
- Personal pronouns in Portuguese
- Proto-Indo-European pronouns
- Slovene pronouns
- Spanish object pronouns
- Spanish personal pronouns
- Spanish pronouns
- Vietnamese pronouns
References
Also known as English personal pronoun, List of pronouns, Modern English personal pronouns, Ourself, Possessive me, Subjective me.