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Personal pronoun   /pˈərsɪnɪl prˈoʊnaʊn/   Listen
Personal pronoun

noun
1.
A pronoun expressing a distinction of person.





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"Personal pronoun" Quotes from Famous Books



... his edifice, in its contrapuntal presentation of character and chapter suspensions, is new, tantalisingly, bewilderingly, refreshingly, new. The colour is toned down, is more sober than the prose of the Eastern stories. Sometimes he employs the personal pronoun, and with what piquancy as well as poignancy may be noted in the volume Youth. This contains three tales, the first, which gives the title-key, has been called the finest short story in English, although it is difficult ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker
... inserts a word for metrical reasons, and sometimes, in the interests of clearness, ademonstrative or personal pronoun, or even a proper name (cf. l.500 ...
— The Translations of Beowulf - A Critical Biography • Chauncey Brewster Tinker
... so long ago, ages and ages,—when you came to see—" She paused a little, and then spoke the personal pronoun that tells the whole story, for a woman can say "him" in such a way as to betray unspeakable heights of adoration or abysses of loathing. She went on slowly. "You were not one of my friends then; how could you be, if there existed anything ...
— The Master-Knot of Human Fate • Ellis Meredith


Words linked to "Personal pronoun" :   pronoun, reflexive, reflexive pronoun


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