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RELATIVE PRONOUN
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
RELATIVE PRONOUN. A PRONOUN that alone or as part of a phrase...woman on whom I rely . The relative pronoun refers to an antecedent ( the man...contrast between the personal set of who pronouns and the non-personal which pronoun...
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PRONOUN
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...one another ); interrogative pronouns ( who , what , etc.); relative pronouns ( who , that , etc.); indefinite pronouns ( any , somebody , none , etc...subclass: who is an interrogative pronoun in Who is that? and a relative...
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pronoun
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
pronoun Linguistic category...from elsewhere. Deictic pronouns take some of their meaning...addressed. Anaphoric pronouns take some of their meaning...antecedent). Types of pronouns are: personal, relative, intensive, reflexive...
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RELATIVE CLAUSE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...read . It may be introduced by a RELATIVE PRONOUN such as who , which , that , or by a phrase containing a relative pronoun, such as for which...Under certain circumstances, the relative pronoun may be omitted: ( the music...
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GENDER
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...are mainly confined to the third-person singular PRONOUNS , personal , reflexive , and possessive ( she/her...personal and non-personal is also found with the relative pronouns who/whom versus which . She/her is widely used...
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KING'S ENGLISH, The
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...contain articles on VOCABULARY (concrete versus abstract words, MALAPROPISMS , LOANWORDS , SLANG , etc.), SYNTAX (relative pronouns, gerunds, shall/will , prepositions, etc.), what the Fowlers call ‘Airs and Graces’...
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WELSH ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...aven't done nothin’ to nobody , see? ); them as a demonstrative adjective ( them things ); as as a relative pronoun ( the one as played for Cardiff ); non-standard verb forms ( She catched it , The coat was all tore ); 'isself...
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BIRMINGHAM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...ago and We'll go up town tomorrow ; use of her instead of she , as in What's 'er doing then? ; use of as as a relative pronoun, as in It wasn't 'im as went ; use of /dai/ for did not , especially with know , as in They dai know where...
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CLEFT SENTENCE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...focused item. The rest is a relative clause. A similar device is...subject is generally a nominal relative clause , the verb is a form...Similar are sentences in which a pronoun or noun phrase with general...used instead of the nominal relative clause: Something I badly...
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ADJECTIVE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...Adjectives that occur predicatively can also post-modify certain pronouns, usually when the adjectives are part of a larger adjective...introduced by the definite article the or by a possessive pronoun. They can function in the same way as nouns, namely as...modification applies to adjectives that modify nouns ...
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