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2 de jul. de 2023 · Interrogative pronouns - used to ask questions of identity like Modern English "who", "what", and "which one". Relative pronouns - used after another substansive to add additional information, like Modern English "whom" in "John is the person whom I like".
Old English personal pronouns show the grammatical person, gender, number, and case of the noun it replaces. Examine 'I' and 'You' in the two sentences below and don't forget that verbs conjugate differently depending on their subject.
Old English grammar. The grammar of Old English differs considerably from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected.
- Me pleases the snow because he does the city quiet.
- I like the snow because it makes the city quiet.
- Mē līcaþ sē snāw for þon þe hē dēþ þā burg stille.
P ronouns are words which stand in for nouns or noun phrases, and thus perform many different functions in a sentence. We have already seen personal pronouns used as subjects in the Weak Verbs section, but pronouns can also add specificity and serve as a reference to previous nouns.
Pronouns Overview. P ronouns can be used in a number of ways to either replace a noun or modify its context. While there are many different types of pronoun, the three most common forms are: Personal Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns, and Relative Pronouns.
In Old English, nouns, pronouns, adjectives and definitions had five cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, and instrumental), two grammatical numbers (singular and plural), and three grammatical gender (male, female and neuter).
In grammar, Old English is chiefly distinguished from later stages in the history of English by greater use of a larger set of inflections in verbs, nouns, adjectives, and pronouns, and also (connected with this) by a rather less fixed word order; it also preserves grammatical gender in nouns and adjectives.
