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==Nouns and pronouns== | ==Nouns and pronouns== | ||
''Languages typically further subdivide nouns into noun classes to some degree. This phenomenon is only peripheral in English, seen in the distinction between pronouns in the third person singular''; is this correct? I doubt whether pronouns are considered to be just a subcategory of nouns. See for example [http://www.sinclair.edu/centers/tlc/pub/handouts_worksheets/grammar_punctuation_writing/nouns_and_pronouns.pdf] [[User:Stefan Olejniczak|Stefan Olejniczak]] 08:26, 18 September 2011 (UTC) | ''Languages typically further subdivide nouns into noun classes to some degree. This phenomenon is only peripheral in English, seen in the distinction between pronouns in the third person singular''; is this correct? I doubt whether pronouns are considered to be just a subcategory of nouns. See for example [http://www.sinclair.edu/centers/tlc/pub/handouts_worksheets/grammar_punctuation_writing/nouns_and_pronouns.pdf] [[User:Stefan Olejniczak|Stefan Olejniczak]] 08:26, 18 September 2011 (UTC) | ||
:Not very clear, is it? I think what it means is that different pronouns are used to refer to nouns of different classes. [[User:Peter Jackson|Peter Jackson]] 13:06, 18 September 2011 (UTC) | |||
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Nouns and pronouns
Languages typically further subdivide nouns into noun classes to some degree. This phenomenon is only peripheral in English, seen in the distinction between pronouns in the third person singular; is this correct? I doubt whether pronouns are considered to be just a subcategory of nouns. See for example [1] Stefan Olejniczak 08:26, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
- Not very clear, is it? I think what it means is that different pronouns are used to refer to nouns of different classes. Peter Jackson 13:06, 18 September 2011 (UTC)