PRONOUN
In
linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (Lat: pronomen) is a pro-form that
substitutes for a noun (or noun phrase), such as, in English, the words it
(substituting for the name of a certain object) and she (substituting for the
female name of a person). The replaced noun is called the antecedent of the
pronoun.
For example, consider the sentence “Lisa gave
the coat to Phil.” All three nouns in the sentence can be replaced by pronouns:
“She gave it to him.” If the coat, Lisa, and Phil have been previously
mentioned, the listener can deduce what the pronouns she, it and him refer to
and therefore understand the meaning of the sentence; however, if the sentence
“She gave it to him.” is the first presentation of the idea, none of the
pronouns have antecedents, and each pronoun is therefore ambiguous. Pronouns
without antecedents are also called unprecursed pronouns. English grammar
allows pronouns to potentially have multiple candidate antecedents. The process
of determining which antecedent was intended is known as anaphore resolution.
TYPES OF PRONOUNS
Common
types of pronouns found in the world’s languages are as follows:
Personal pronouns stand in place of the names of
people or things:
·
Subject pronouns are used when the person or thing is the subject of
the sentence or clause. English example: I like to eat chips, but she does not.
·
Second person formal and informal
pronouns (T-V
distinction). For example, vous and tu in French. There is no distinction in
modern English though Elizabethan English marked the distinction with “thou”
(singular informal) and “you” (plural or singular formal).
·
Inclusive and exclusive “we” pronouns indicate whether the
audience is included. There is no distinction in English.
·
Intensive pronouns, also known as emphatic pronouns,
re-emphasize a noun or pronoun that has already been mentioned. English uses
the same forms as the reflexive pronouns; for example: I did it myself
(contrast reflexive use, I did it to myself).
·
Object pronouns are used when the person or thing
is the object of the sentence or clause. English example: John likes me but not
her.
Direct and
indirect object pronouns.
English uses the same oblique form for both; for example: Mary loves him
(direct object); Mary sent him a letter (indirect object).
·
Reflexive pronouns are used when a person or thing
acts on itself. English example: John cut himself.
·
Reciprocal pronouns refer to a reciprocal
relationship. English example: They do not like each other.
Prepositional
pronouns come
after a preposition. No distinct forms exist in English; for example: Anna and
Maria looked at him.
Disjunctive
pronouns are
used in isolation or in certain other special grammatical contexts. No distinct
forms exist in English; for example: Who does this belong to? Me.
Dummy pronouns are used when grammatical rules
require a noun (or pronoun), but none is semantically required. English
example: It is raining.
Weak pronouns.
Possessive
pronouns are
used to indicate possessionor ownership.
·
In
a strict sense, the possessive pronouns are only those that act
syntactically as nouns. English example: Those clothes are mine.
·
Often,
though, the term “possessive pronoun” is also applied to the so-called
possessive adjectives (or possessive determiners). For example, in English: I
lost my wallet. They are not strictly speaking pronouns[citation needed]
because they do not substitute for a noun or noun phrase, and as such, some
grammarians classify these terms in a separate lexical category called
determiners (they have a syntactic role close to that of adjectives, always
qualifying a noun).
Demonstrative
pronouns distinguish
the particular objects or people that are referred to from other possible
candidates. English example: I’ll take these.
Indefinite
pronouns refer
to general categories of people or things. English example: Anyone can do that.
·
Distributive pronouns are used to refer to members of a
group separately rather than collectively. English example: To each his own.
·
Negative pronouns indicate the non-existence of
people or things. English example: Nobody thinks that.
Relative pronouns refer back to people or things
previously mentioned. English example: People who smoke should quit now.
·
Indefinite relative pronouns have some of the properties of
both relative pronouns and indefinite pronouns. They have a sense of “referring
back”, but the person or thing to which they refer has not previously been
explicitly named. English example: I know what I like.
Interrogative
pronouns ask
which person or thing is meant. English example: Who did that?
·
In
many languages (e.g., Czech, English, French, Interlingua, and Russian), the
sets of relative and interrogative pronouns are nearly identical. Compare
English: Who is that? (interrogative) to I know who that is. (relative).
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