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resumptive pronoun
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Linguistics.
a pronoun that appears in a sentence at a position from which something has been copied or moved by a transformational rule, as found in languages such as Irish, Welsh, Hebrew, and Arabic and in some nonstandard varieties of English, as him in (nonstandard) the man that I gave the book to him.
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âWasâ is used for the indicative past tense of âto be,â and âwereâ is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
Words nearby resumptive pronoun
resultant tone, resultingly, resume, resumption, resumptive, resumptive pronoun, resupinate, resupination, resupine, resupply, resurface
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