| Examples (linguistics: expression referred to by pronoun) |
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| • In “The policeman asked the boy what he was doing.”, the phrase “the boy” is the antecedent of the pronoun “he”. • In the sentence “I saw my girlfriend yesterday wearing her old jacket which is odd because she almost never wears it.”, the phrase “my girlfriend” is the antecedent of “her” and “old jacket” is the antecedent of “it”. |
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