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Example sentences for: pronoun
How can you use “pronoun” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Opponents of nonsexist language show passionate loyalty to principles of etymology and tradition and unexpected respect for grace and style (admittedly frequent victims of inclusion of the feminine pronoun).
If we had only that scene to go by we would never really know, and all because of a Puzzling Pronoun —or two!
In answer to Anne Bodine's point, both the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and the Collins Cobuild Dictionary use they and their as the non-gender-specific pronoun/adjective (which the reader probably noted also in the first paragraph of this review).
Serve a function is such a collocation as are (from the preceding paragraph) from the standpoint of, provide relief, present a [or no ] problem, as often [or any adjective/adverb] as , noun phrases like eye contact, lack of understanding, member of his [or any pronoun, name, or article] audience, background noise , and attention span . Those who have had experience with a person learning English as a foreign language are aware that a breakthrough seems to come as soon as the person starts using clichés and colloquial or slang expressions appropriately, even though the speaker's pronunciation may still be far from a native speaker's.
, but here we give examples of his third case only, where “there should not be two parties justifying even a momentary doubt about which the pronoun represents.”
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