Example sentences for: pronoun

How can you use “pronoun” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bodine analyzes the ways in which (male) grammarians (both descriptive and prescriptive) have since the seventeenth century sought to establish he as the sex-indefinite pronoun despite evidence that actual usage consistently contradicts that.

  • One of the most basic rules of grammar, that decreeing agreement in number of indefinite article or demonstrative pronoun with the noun modified, is, apparently, no longer seen as binding.

  • 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).

  • Compounding native English words or elements produces all classes of combinations—noun: farmhouse ; verb: understand ; adjective: twenty-one ; adverb: herewith ; preposition: into ; pronoun: someone ; conjunction: because ; interjection: good grief . It is also a gradual process, as evidenced by the sequence of to day, to-day, today .

  • In the title in question les might be translated by the pronoun you and the whole title as: “So long, you guys.”


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