adjective pronoun
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Let the teacher further illustrate the office of the adjective pronoun by using the words each, all, many, some, such, etc.
From Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room by Reed, Alonzo
If the noun is expressed, the word in question is called a pronominal adjective; but if the noun is omitted so that the word in question takes its place, it is called an adjective pronoun.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
The indefinite adjective pronoun one when put in place of a personal substantive is liable to raise confusion.
From How to Speak and Write Correctly by Devlin, Joseph
Them is the objective case of the personal pronoun and cannot be used adjectively like the demonstrative adjective pronoun.
From How to Speak and Write Correctly by Devlin, Joseph
This is a solecism which may be avoided by employing an adjective pronoun in its stead.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel
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