Lexic.us

Definition of Personal pronoun

1. Noun. A pronoun expressing a distinction of person.

Definition of Personal pronoun

1. Noun. A pronoun which, in English, refers to one or a combination of the following: ¹

2. Noun. Any pronoun, with an antecedent, standing in as the subject or object of a verb. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Personal Pronoun

Literary usage of Personal pronoun

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius (1859)
"USE OF THE personal pronoun. 1. THE personal pronoun as subject of the sentence, like any other word in the same relation, requires for its union with the ..."

2. A Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition by Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1844)
"166. a) The personal pronoun should be expressed, when an opposition between the person ... 167. i) The personal pronoun is also expressed, when opposite or ..."

3. The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (1851)
"Htm is a personal pronoun, of the third person, singular number, ... A personal pronoun Is a pronoun that show«, by it* form, of what person It is. 3. ..."

4. Ethiopic Grammar by August Dillmann, Carl Bezold (1907)
"In other words, a personal Pronoun is assigned to the Predicate-word in order to turn it completely into a Predicate, precisely as the inflected Verb always ..."

5. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"The personal pronoun §457. Significance of the Name. personal pronouns we call not only the pronouns of the first and second persons, which from their ..."

6. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"The second personal pronoun in the plural is used among peasants and other people of lower ... The third personal pronoun in the singular, cr for male, ..."

7. Elements of Hebrew Syntax by an Inductive Method by William Rainey Harper (1888)
"The personal pronoun, in its separate form,a aside from its ordinary use,bcde is employed, a. In apposition with a noun or pronoun in an oblique case, ..."

8. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"In prepositional phrases modifying a noun a personal pronoun of the third person must be used according to С if the phrase is equivalent to a subordinate ..."

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