“The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there’s gold in letting go of them.” - John Seely Brown
Demonstrative Pronouns - Pronouns that point to specific things.
Demonstrative pronouns are indicated with this, these, that or those. They indicate distance. The antecedent can be in another clause or sentence. Sometimes the reference is too vague to denote a specific antecedent.
“One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Interrogative - of, pertaining to, or conveying a question
Interrogative Pronouns introduce questions.
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” - Hans Hoffman
Relative Pronoun - A pronoun that introduces a relative clause and has reference to an antecedent.
Relative Clause - a clause introduced by a relative pronoun; “‘who visits frequently’ is a relative clause in the sentence ‘John, who visits frequently, is ill’”
Ok, so I have a definition to define my definition that uses the term I’m attempting to define within it - Aaaaaargh! This is why English sucks.
Let’s break this down a bit more…
“Wisdom is what’s left after we’ve run out of personal opinions.” - Cullen Hightower
Personal Pronoun - A pronoun designating the person speaking (I, me, we, us), the person spoken to (you), or the person or thing spoken about (he, she, it, they, him, her, them).
Personal pronouns are seperated by person, case and number.
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. - Ambrose Bierce
Pronoun - The part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for, previously specified, or understood from the context.
A pronoun takes the place of another noun.
