Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Lesson 1 Language and Writing
- Lesson 2 Unliteral Signs
- Lesson 3 Multiliteral Signs
- Lesson 4 Nouns
- Lesson 5 Pronouns
- Lesson 6 Adjectives
- Lesson 7 Adjectival and Nominal Sentences
- Lesson 8 Prepositions and Adverbs
- Lesson 9 Numbers
- Lesson 10 Adverbial Sentences
- Lesson 11 Non-verbal Sentences
- Lesson 12 Verbs
- Lesson 13 The Infinitival Forms
- Lesson 14 The Pseudo-verbal Construction
- Lesson 15 The Imperative and Particles
- Lesson 16 The Stative
- Lesson 17 The sdm.n.f
- Lesson 18 The sdm.f
- Lesson 19 The Other Forms of the Suffix Conjugation
- Lesson 20 Adverb Clauses
- Lesson 21 Noun Clauses
- Lesson 22 Relative Clauses
- Lesson 23 The Active Participle
- Lesson 24 The Passive Participle
- Lesson 25 Emphatic Sentences
- Lesson 26 Middle Egyptian Grammar
- Sign List
- Dictionary
- Text References
- Answers to the Exercises
- Index
Lesson 5 - Pronouns
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Lesson 1 Language and Writing
- Lesson 2 Unliteral Signs
- Lesson 3 Multiliteral Signs
- Lesson 4 Nouns
- Lesson 5 Pronouns
- Lesson 6 Adjectives
- Lesson 7 Adjectival and Nominal Sentences
- Lesson 8 Prepositions and Adverbs
- Lesson 9 Numbers
- Lesson 10 Adverbial Sentences
- Lesson 11 Non-verbal Sentences
- Lesson 12 Verbs
- Lesson 13 The Infinitival Forms
- Lesson 14 The Pseudo-verbal Construction
- Lesson 15 The Imperative and Particles
- Lesson 16 The Stative
- Lesson 17 The sdm.n.f
- Lesson 18 The sdm.f
- Lesson 19 The Other Forms of the Suffix Conjugation
- Lesson 20 Adverb Clauses
- Lesson 21 Noun Clauses
- Lesson 22 Relative Clauses
- Lesson 23 The Active Participle
- Lesson 24 The Passive Participle
- Lesson 25 Emphatic Sentences
- Lesson 26 Middle Egyptian Grammar
- Sign List
- Dictionary
- Text References
- Answers to the Exercises
- Index
Summary
5.1 Definitions
Pronouns are words that languages use to stand in for nouns (the word “pronoun” means “for a noun”). In the English sentence Jack is proud that he taught himself on his own, for example, the pronouns he, himself, and his all refer to the same thing as the noun Jack; they are used so that the speaker doesn't have to repeat the same noun (Jack is proud that Jack taught Jack on Jack's own). Although all three pronouns refer to the same thing, they have different forms (and different grammatical names) because they do different jobs in the sentence: he is a subject pronoun, used here to indicate the actor of the verb taught; himself is a reflexive pronoun, serving as object of the verb; and his is a possessive pronoun, the owner here of the noun own.
Besides the various forms they may take, pronouns also belong to several different categories. He, himself, and his are all personal pronouns. “Person” is a term grammarians use to describe the participants in a conversation. The first person is the speaker or speakers: English first-person pronouns are I, me, my, mine, myself (singular); and we, us, our, ours, ourselves (plural). The second person is the person or persons spoken to: second-person pronouns in English are you, your, yours (singular or plural); yourself (singular) and yourselves (plural).
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- Middle EgyptianAn Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, pp. 59 - 74Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014