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Introduction to Old English
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Introduction to Old English
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Running head: PERSONAL PRONOUN Personal PronounName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note
1PERSONAL PRONOUN REFRENCE 1Baker, P. S. (2012).Introduction to Old English. John Wiley & Sons.Baker (2012) in his book has focused into the usage of personal pronoun in everydayconversation. He has stated that the usage of personal pronoun is very easy to learn as we use it on adaily basis while we converse. The article stated that there are three types of personal pronoun thatone use daily such as first person personal pronoun, second person personal pronoun and third personpersonal pronoun. The first person pronoun shows the usage of “me” and “we” in the dailyconversation. Whereas, second person use you, your and other and third person are words like theirs,he, him, her and others. The information is presented in the book in a very systematic manner withtables and example to make the readers easily understand the motive of the subject written. The articleteaches the general idea of personal pronoun, which will help the user to differentiate betweendifferent sentences. It is the most general type of noun that completes all types of sentences. Itteaches the reader the difference between a noun and a pronoun and tells that a pronoun is used inplace of a noun. The book also gives examples from other types of noun to show the differencesbetween them and personal pronoun. REFERENCE 2Parker, F., Riley, K., & Meyer, C. F. (1990). Untriggered reflexive pronouns inEnglish.American Speech,65(1), 50-69.Parker et al. (1990) in their book has shown the relationship between the reflexive pronounand personal pronoun. It shows the way first, second and third person pronoun is used with thereflexive pronoun. The article has explained the usage of reflexive pronouns with the help of anexample such as “you can do your work yourself”. In this sentence, “you” and “your” are first personpronoun and yourself is the reflexive of the first person. This shows that one person can easily form asentence by using both personal pronoun and reflexive pronoun. However, the article has also shownthat there are certain exceptions to the usage of reflexive pronoun with the personal pronoun. Thereare sentences that use reflexive pronouns even without any co referential with any personal pronoun.
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