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But the role of pronouns in communication extends beyond chit chat into interpersonal relationships.
FORBES: Having a 'versation
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The narrative voice moves between different unidentified pronouns, imaginary friends for the lonely author.
ECONOMIST: Chinese fiction
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Funny, how we never see any confusion over these pronouns in his book, which is written in largely impeccable English.
NEWYORKER: The English Wars
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Still, her publications and Website always capitalize pronouns that refer to her.
CNN: AllPolitics - TIME This Week
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Kids are playing video games and relying on social media instead of communicating face-to-face, Boyer said, and pronouns are embedded in product names.
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Liberal mainline seminaries appear to have turned into little gender police states whose denizens quietly tally your pronouns as you talk, calculating gender ratios.
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To psychologically distance themselves from a lie, people often pepper their tales with second- and third-person pronouns like "you, " "we" and "they, " says Hancock.
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The opening track, "It Could Happen to You, " finds Krall stretching out pronouns and participles as if they merited special musical attention rather than making invention enhance expression, as instrumentalists like John Coltrane and Miles Davis did so eloquently.
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The teacher, an American expat, spoke to the class solely in English, almost unheard-of in French schools where foreign languages are taught in French by French natives, and we were all handed a phonebook-sized block of paper, full of lists of verbs and pronouns, useful tips, press clips (largely from The Economist) and other things to learn.
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Robin can get back into the act to argue that Terry really should be paying some of the tax in which case Robin will be called the intervenor. (Terry will be calling Robin something else, but it would be unwise for me to repeat that.) On to the case, where I can start using third person pronouns.
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