Advanced Vocabulary - Pronouns

Pronouns

ablative noun

linguistics the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective that you use in some languages when you are talking about who something is done by, what something is done with, or where something comes from.

demonstrative adjective

linguistics demonstrative pronouns are the words ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘these’, and ‘those’.

direct object noun

linguistics the noun or pronoun in a sentence that is affected by the action of a transitive verb. In the sentence ‘Harry was reading a book’, the noun phrase ‘a book’ is the direct object of the verb ‘was reading’..

the first person noun

linguistics the form of the pronoun or verb that you use about yourself, and about someone who is with you. The first person pronouns in English are ‘I’, ‘me’, ‘we’, and ‘us’..

genitive noun

linguistics a form of the noun or pronoun in the grammar of some languages, used to show possession In English, this is shown by adding ‘’s’ at the end of the word, for example ‘Sarah’s birthday’ .

impersonal pronoun noun

linguistics a pronoun such as ‘it’ in English that does not refer to a particular person or thing, for example ‘It’s all right’.

indefinite pronoun noun

linguistics a pronoun that does not refer to any particular person or thing, for example ‘anybody’, ‘everyone’, or ‘anything’.

indirect object noun

linguistics the person or thing in a sentence that is indirectly affected by the action of the verb because something is given to them or done for them. For example ‘me’ is the indirect object in ‘He gave me the book.’.

nominative noun

linguistics the form of a noun or pronoun when it is the subject of a verb.

personal pronoun noun

linguistics a pronoun such as ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘them’, or ‘it’ that refers to a specific person, thing, or group of people or things.

possessive pronoun noun

linguistics a pronoun such as ‘mine’, ‘theirs’, or ‘yours’ that shows who something belongs to.

pron. abbreviation

pronoun.

pronominal adjective

linguistics relating to a pronoun, or used as a pronoun.

pronominal noun

linguistics a word that acts as a pronoun.

pronoun noun

linguistics a word used instead of a noun for referring to a person or thing that has been mentioned earlier, for example ‘she’, ‘they’, ‘that’, and ‘yourself’.

relative pronoun noun

linguistics a pronoun such as ‘who’, ‘that’, or ‘which’ that introduces a relative clause in a sentence.

the second person noun

linguistics the pronoun or form of a verb that refers to the person you are talking to. In English the second person pronoun is ‘you’.

the third person noun

linguistics the set of pronouns and verb forms used for referring to someone or something that is not the speaker or the person being spoken to.

first second third person

linguistics the forms of pronouns or verbs that show who is being referred to. People use the first person (I) to refer to themselves, the second person (you) to refer to the person or people they are talking to, and the third person he she they to refer to anyone else.

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