LIN204H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hypercorrection, Reflexive Pronoun, Possessive Determiner
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The noun phrase that gives the pronoun meaning. The baseball player blamed himself; himself"s antecedent is the baseball player. Or not found or unspoken: they are dancing on the table. Person: we (1st) vs. you(2nd) vs. they(3rd) Gender: he vs. she inanimate and human: it vs. she. Case: he (subject) vs. him (object) vs. his (possessive) Bob and him are going to see a movie. Bob and him is a in subject case. The noun phrase directly precedes the verb and informs the action. Omit the noun and the word (and) For jane and he, life is good. Omit the first noun phrase and the conjunct and for the first two. When they are in a conjoined phrase. For jane and he, life seems so easy. Because it occurs at the beginning of the sentence. When speakers lose their internal sense of grammatical rules. We teach children that it is bob and i not bob and me - prescriptive.
