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单词 pronoun
释义

Definition of pronoun in English:

pronoun

noun ˈprəʊnaʊnˈproʊˌnaʊn
  • A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this).

    See also personal pronoun impersonal pronoun
    Example sentencesExamples
    • You couldn't get a noun and a pronoun and an adverb out in that time.
    • A three-year-old can imitate adults and playmates, play make-believe with dolls and use pronouns or plural words.
    • Likewise, for the adjectives, determiners, and pronouns, we need to recognize both masculine and feminine forms.
    • Such words include pronouns, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, and prepositions.
    • The agreement targets were verbs and two types of pronouns, produced in the course of a sentence-completion task.
    • I've always wondered why we use a plural pronoun to refer to a third, rather nebulous, individual.
    • Languages also vary with respect to the grammatical functions a logophoric pronoun can perform.
    • As seems to be the case in Malaysian, there is some equivocation about whether the borrowings are pronouns or just nouns.
    • In two studies in which readers' eye movements were recorded, we examined the processing of pronouns bound by universal quantifiers.
    • In English, conjunctions, determiners, interjections, particles, and pronouns are grammatical words.
    • Once the family has been explicitly mentioned, Lanchester can refer to them with pronouns, in particular the pronoun them.
    • Nahuatl once had an extensive system of honorifics, which affected not only the choice of pronouns, but also the forms of verbs, nouns, and pronouns.
    • At the moment I am trying to master 5 different tenses of verbs and also adverbs, pronouns and other vocabulary.
    • However, I've never seen a kid use the same pronoun in contiguous sentences to refer to different people.
    • Some of the most common difficulties that their students have learning Bulgarian are pronouns, verbs and word order.
    • Strawson's idea was that descriptions refer because their anaphoric pronouns do.
    • Things are even clearer with the object pronoun in the third person singular.
    • The asserted rule must be that a pronoun cannot refer to the noun portion of a possessive - but I've never heard of any such rule.
    • Note, by the way, that there is nothing necessarily illogical about using singular pronouns in such cases.
    • Can you have a pronoun in the main clause coming earlier than an antecedent in a subordinate clause?

Origin

Late Middle English: from pro-1 'on behalf of', + noun, suggested by French pronom, Latin pronomen (from pro- 'for, in place of' + nomen 'name').

 
 

Definition of pronoun in US English:

pronoun

nounˈproʊˌnaʊnˈprōˌnoun
  • A word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this).

    See also personal pronoun impersonal pronoun
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Things are even clearer with the object pronoun in the third person singular.
    • Can you have a pronoun in the main clause coming earlier than an antecedent in a subordinate clause?
    • Some of the most common difficulties that their students have learning Bulgarian are pronouns, verbs and word order.
    • Nahuatl once had an extensive system of honorifics, which affected not only the choice of pronouns, but also the forms of verbs, nouns, and pronouns.
    • A three-year-old can imitate adults and playmates, play make-believe with dolls and use pronouns or plural words.
    • I've always wondered why we use a plural pronoun to refer to a third, rather nebulous, individual.
    • You couldn't get a noun and a pronoun and an adverb out in that time.
    • The asserted rule must be that a pronoun cannot refer to the noun portion of a possessive - but I've never heard of any such rule.
    • Note, by the way, that there is nothing necessarily illogical about using singular pronouns in such cases.
    • The agreement targets were verbs and two types of pronouns, produced in the course of a sentence-completion task.
    • Strawson's idea was that descriptions refer because their anaphoric pronouns do.
    • However, I've never seen a kid use the same pronoun in contiguous sentences to refer to different people.
    • In two studies in which readers' eye movements were recorded, we examined the processing of pronouns bound by universal quantifiers.
    • Languages also vary with respect to the grammatical functions a logophoric pronoun can perform.
    • Once the family has been explicitly mentioned, Lanchester can refer to them with pronouns, in particular the pronoun them.
    • Likewise, for the adjectives, determiners, and pronouns, we need to recognize both masculine and feminine forms.
    • Such words include pronouns, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, and prepositions.
    • In English, conjunctions, determiners, interjections, particles, and pronouns are grammatical words.
    • At the moment I am trying to master 5 different tenses of verbs and also adverbs, pronouns and other vocabulary.
    • As seems to be the case in Malaysian, there is some equivocation about whether the borrowings are pronouns or just nouns.

Origin

Late Middle English: from pro- ‘on behalf of’, + noun, suggested by French pronom, Latin pronomen (from pro- ‘for, in place of’ + nomen ‘name’).

 
 
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