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Example sentences for: referents

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When it is necessary to be precise and construct a publicly shared language with clear referents, people can do so.
I refuse, out of conservatism and sheer curmudgeonliness to give up English grammar (like the “neutral” pronouns of reference) when I cannot paraphrase without losing what little elegance there may be in my writing, and I refuse to sacrifice metonyms, metaphors, allusions, and other figures of speech that contain male referents, substituting “big liar” for Baron Munchhausen and “Peeping Thomasina” for Peeping Tom or trying to get around saying or writing Pollyanna, say uncle, raise Cain , or Jesus Christ !
The chief problem with these and other definitions is that some are based on semantics (the intent of the speaker and the understanding of the hearer), others on usage, and others on referents.
Its facilitating role is to create a new word from an existing one owing to some similarity in their referents.
As readers of these occasional notes on English are well aware, British standard usage now condones the use of the indicative where the subjunctive formerly reigned and, to mention just one other obvious phenomenon, the use of the plural pronouns of reference for what have traditionally been regarded as singular referents (as in Everyone should bring their book to class tomorrow ).