Phrase Hound found 30 phrases and 3 compound words that contain pronouns. The most common are listed below. Open pronouns in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 30
- dummy pronounsplural of dummy pronoun: A pronoun used to fulfill a syntactic role rather than one with a specific referent. For example, the "it" in "It's raining".
- indefinite pronounsplural of indefinite pronoun: A pronoun that does not specify the identity of its referent.
- intensive pronounsplural of intensive pronoun: A pronoun used to emphasize some other nominal element in its clause:
- personal pronounsplural of personal pronoun: A pronoun which, in English, refers to one or a combination of the following
- relative pronounsplural of relative pronoun: A pronoun that introduces a relative clause and refers to an antecedent. In English, some words that can be used as interrogative pronouns can alternatively be used as relative pronouns: which, who, whose, whom …
- reflexive pronounsplural of reflexive pronoun: In English: a personal pronoun, having a form of "-self" as a suffix to show that the subject's action affects the subject itself.
- possessive pronounsplural of possessive pronoun: A pronoun which expresses possession.
- demonstrative pronounsplural of demonstrative pronoun: A pronoun that replaces a noun whose identity can be understood from the context and indicates whether the noun is singular or plural and whether it is near or far from the speaker or writer.
- interrogative pronounsplural of interrogative pronoun: A pronoun used in a question. In English, the five interrogative pronouns are what, which, who, whom, and whose (also used as relative pronouns). These require no antecedent.
- noun-self pronounsplural of noun-self pronoun: A type of third-person singular neopronoun constructed (often as an in-group identifier or nonce word) from a referent noun.
- Spivak pronounsplural of Spivak pronoun: Any of a set of gender-neutral neopronouns occasionally used in English, formerly associated with the LambdaMOO online community.
- prepositional pronounsplural of prepositional pronoun: A type of pronoun used in Celtic and Semitic languages, where a preposition followed by a personal pronoun creates a new word.
- nounself pronounsplural of nounself pronoun: A type of third-person singular neopronoun constructed (often as an in-group identifier or nonce word) from a referent noun.
- adjective pronounsplural of adjective pronoun: An adjective used as a pronoun, such as each, either, and neither, which relate to objects taken singly.
- copy pronounsplural of copy pronoun: A pronoun in a relative clause which refers to the antecedent of the relative pronoun.
- donkey pronounsplural of donkey pronoun: The pronoun, in a donkey sentence, whose syntactic role poses a challenge.
- mirror pronounsUsage of the same pronouns as the speaker.
- neo-pronounsplural of neo-pronoun: A pronoun used in place of he, she, one, it, or singular they, especially one of the modern coinages used by some non-binary people.
- object pronounsplural of object pronoun: A pronoun that is used as the object of a sentence, such as "me", "him" or "us" in English.
- perpendicular pronounsplural of perpendicular pronoun: The first-person singular pronoun "I".
- reciprocal pronounsplural of reciprocal pronoun: A pronoun referring to an antecedent in the plural, and expressing a mutual relation.
- shadow pronounsplural of shadow pronoun: A pronoun in a relative clause which refers to the antecedent of the relative pronoun.
- subject pronounsplural of subject pronoun: A pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence, such as "I", "he" "she" "they" or "we" in English.
- emphatic pronounsplural of emphatic pronoun: A form of pronoun used in an emphatic way, or otherwise syntactically restricted to use in emphatic contexts, for example to create contrast or serve as the rheme of the sentence
- pronouns demonstrativeplural of pronoun demonstrative: A pronoun that replaces a noun whose identity can be understood from the context and indicates whether the noun is singular or plural and whether it is near or far from the speaker or writer.
Compound words 3
- mispronounsthird-person singular simple present indicative of mispronoun: To refer to (someone) using third-person pronouns other than their preferred gender pronouns, either unknowingly or intentionally.
- neopronounsplural of neopronoun: A pronoun used in place of he, she, one, it, or singular they, especially one of the modern coinages used by some non-binary people.
- xenopronounsplural of xenopronoun: A pronoun used in place of he, she, one, it, or singular they, especially one of the modern coinages used by some non-binary people.