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Definition of Demonstrative pronoun
1. Noun. A pronoun that points out an intended referent.
Definition of Demonstrative pronoun
1. Noun. (grammar) a pronoun which replaces a noun whose identity can be understood from the context; it indicates whether the noun is singular or plural, and whether it is near or far from the speaker or writer ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Demonstrative Pronoun
Literary usage of Demonstrative pronoun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius (1859)
"Originally the article was a demonstrative pronoun, akin to the pronoun of the
third person, but of so feeble import that it was never used except in ..."
2. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"Though we do not now find a neuter demonstrative pronoun in am or an holding an
independent position of its own in any of the Dravidian languages (as is the ..."
3. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"The demonstrative pronoun § 467. Expansion of the Demonstratives. The demonstrative
pronoun has in the history of the German language acquired a great deal ..."
4. Historical Outlines of English Syntax by Leon Kellner (1905)
"Such " as a demonstrative pronoun has, on the whole, undergone no syntactical
change; there is, however, a marked difference between the old and modern use ..."
5. A Grammar of the Greek Language: Chiefly from the German of Raphael Kühner by William Edward Jelf (1842)
"Personal and the demonstrative pronoun?. §. 657- 1. The HI. personal pronoun,
of, oí, í, /lív, and the demonstrative, 6, f¡, то, are often used in Homer to ..."
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