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Grammar Song: How Pronouns Replace Nouns

Review how pronouns replace nouns with this grammar rap song. This music video gives examples of nouns replaced by singular subject pronouns, plural subject pronouns, singular object pronouns, plural…

locative

(Encyclopedia) locativelocativelŏkˈətĭv [key] [Lat.,=placing], in the grammar of certain languages (e.g., Sanskrit), the case referring to location. Nouns in this case are often translatable into…

Chesterfield

(Encyclopedia) Chesterfield, city and district, Derbyshire, central England. An important industrial center, Chesterfield produces mining equipment,…

Florio, John

(Encyclopedia) Florio, JohnFlorio, Johnflôˈrēō [key], 1553?–1625, English author, b. London of Italian parentage. Educated at Oxford, Florio served in various capacities at the court of James I. He…

inflection

(Encyclopedia) inflection, in grammar. In many languages, words or parts of words are arranged in formally similar sets consisting of a root, or base, and various affixes. Thus walking, walks, walker…

Macclesfield

(Encyclopedia) MacclesfieldMacclesfieldmăkˈəlzfēld [key], town (1991 pop. 46,832), Cheshire East, W England. Silk manufacture, of which Macclesfield is the principal center in England, was introduced…

Sibawaihi

(Encyclopedia) SibawaihiSibawaihisēbäwīhē [key], c.760–793, Persian grammarian, considered the most important Arabic grammarian. His book al-Kitah fi'l nahwi is the first complete Arabic grammar,…

Barnes, William

(Encyclopedia) Barnes, William, 1801–86, English poet and philologist. After a career as a schoolmaster, he took holy orders in 1847. He is best known for his poems in Dorset dialect, which began to…