Example sentences for: pronoun

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

  • 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).

  • A baby is often it , but a cat not obviously a tomcat is more likely to be called she and a dog or horse he , while generally in English the masculine singular pronoun comes naturally when one is referring to an animal.

  • so if you run for office, by all means use the first-person pronoun so that people won't make fun of you.

  • If we had only that scene to go by we would never really know, and all because of a Puzzling Pronoun —or two!

  • But in more formal standard English inanimate objects are now referred to by the neuter pronoun it , though in other Indo-European languages that I know grammatical gender lingers as a sort of ghost of animistic gender haunting all nouns.


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