Pronouns Illustrated
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Sample Handmade Responses to Hale’s Sin and Syntax,
Chapter 2: Pronounswith corresponding citations from the chapter
Angelo State UniversityEnglish 4361: English GrammarDr. Laurence MusgroveDepartment of English and Modern LanguagesJanuary 22, 2013
www.theillustratedprofessor.com@lemusgro
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“Unlike nouns, a class of words that is forever morphing and mutating, the list of pronouns is finite and predictable, subdividing neatly and changed only slightly since the days of Shakespeare” (32).
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“Unlike nouns, a class of words that is forever morphing and mutating, the list of pronouns is finite and predictable, subdividing neatly and changed only slightly since the days of Shakespeare” (32).
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“Unlike nouns, a class of words that is forever morphing and mutating, the list of pronouns is finite and predictable, subdividing neatly and changed only slightly since the days of Shakespeare” (32).
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“Unlike nouns, a class of words that is forever morphing and mutating, the list of pronouns is finite and predictable, subdividing neatly and changed only slightly since the days of Shakespeare” (32).
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“Pronouns are proxies for nouns. They stand in willingly when nouns don’t want to hang around sounding repetitive” (32).
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“Pronouns are proxies for nouns. They stand in willingly when nouns don’t want to hang around sounding repetitive” (32).
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“Pronouns are proxies for nouns. They stand in willingly when nouns don’t want to hang around sounding repetitive” (32).
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“Expletive pronouns (it, there) are less sexy than they sound, stepping into a sentence as subject when the juice of the sentence lurks in the predicate..” (33).
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“’Jim and myself, however, were holding out for June’ is hardly a studly sentence; June would prefer ‘Jim and I’” (34).
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“Possessive pronouns are all apostrophe-less: my, your, his, her, its. Who’s and it’s are contractions of who is and it is. Learn this or die” (52).
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“Your biggest problems with pronouns will come if you lose sight of the antecedent: when a pronoun drifts away from its antecedent, the entire meaning gets lost at sea” (44).
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“Your biggest problems with pronouns will come if you lose sight of the antecedent: when a pronoun drifts away from its antecedent, the entire meaning gets lost at sea” (44).
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“Your biggest problems with pronouns will come if you lose sight of the antecedent: when a pronoun drifts away from its antecedent, the entire meaning gets lost at sea” (44).
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“Your biggest problems with pronouns will come if you lose sight of the antecedent: when a pronoun drifts away from its antecedent, the entire meaning gets lost at sea” (44).