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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. [1] Traditional grammars consider them to be a distinct part of speech, while most modern grammars see them as a subcategory of noun, contrasting with common and proper nouns.
The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and ...
English pronouns have often traditionally been classified as different from nouns, but at least one modern grammar defines them as a subclass of nouns. [10]: 33–42 English personal pronouns have a number of different syntactic contexts (Subject, Object, Possessive, Reflexive) and many features: person (1st, 2nd, 3rd); number (singular, plural);
English personal pronouns (4 C, 1 P) Pages in category "English pronouns" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Personal pronouns in Early Modern English; Nominative Oblique Genitive Possessive; 1st person singular I me my/mine [# 1] mine plural we us our ours 2nd person singular informal thou thee thy/thine [# 1] thine plural informal ye you your yours formal you 3rd person singular he/she/it him/her/it his/her/his (it) [# 2] his/hers/his [# 2] plural ...
English personal pronouns (4 C, 1 P) G. Gender-neutral pronouns (19 P) S. Second-person pronouns (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Personal pronouns"
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