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personal pronoun
[ pur-suh-nl proh-noun ]
noun
, Grammar.
- any one of the pronouns used to refer to the speaker, or to those to or about whom the speaker is speaking, as, in English, I, me, we, us, you, he, she, it, they, him, her, them.
personal pronoun
noun
- a pronoun having a definite person or thing as an antecedent and functioning grammatically in the same way as the noun that it replaces. In English, the personal pronouns include I, you, he, she, it, we, and they, and are inflected for case
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Word History and Origins
Origin of personal pronoun1
First recorded in 1660–70
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Example Sentences
The relative object pronoun is often repeated as a personal pronoun, so that the verb has its object expressed twice.
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The third personal pronoun—he, she, it—in all its cases is especially uncertain in its references.
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That is my excuse for the free use of the personal pronoun, not to make prominent the person, but to emphasize the reality.
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A personal pronoun has two cases the nominative and the objective.
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One of them was a burlesque report of an egotistical lecturer who was referred to as "Professor Personal Pronoun."
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