(as phrase or clause substitute)

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• you + appositional name, phrase, or clause —    With this kind of vocative expression the speaker typically expresses surprise or regret that what he or she is saying must be said to this particular person, as opposed to someone else. ‘You of all people’ sums up that thought. One man might… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• noun phrase — noun a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb • Syn: ↑nominal phrase, ↑nominal • Hypernyms: ↑phrase * * * noun Usage: sometimes capitalized N&P : a syntactic element (as a word, phrase, or clause) that can be u …   Useful english dictionary

• Relative clause — A relative clause is a subordinate clause that modifies a noun. For example, the noun phrase the man who wasn t there contains the noun man , which is modified by the relative clause who wasn t there . In many languages, relative clauses are… …   Wikipedia

• pro-form — /proh fawrm /, n. Gram. a word used to replace or substitute for a word, phrase, or clause belonging to a given grammatical class, as a pronoun used to replace a noun or noun phrase, there used to replace an adverb or adverbial phrase of place,… …   Useful english dictionary

• Dravidian languages — Family of 23 languages indigenous to and spoken principally in South Asia by more than 210 million people. The four major Dravidian languages of southern India Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam have independent scripts and long documented… …   Universalium

• pro-form — /proh fawrm /, n. Gram. a word used to replace or substitute for a word, phrase, or clause belonging to a given grammatical class, as a pronoun used to replace a noun or noun phrase, there used to replace an adverb or adverbial phrase of place,… …   Universalium

• pro-form — [[t]ˈproʊˌfɔrm[/t]] n. gram. a word used to replace or substitute for a word, phrase, or clause belonging to a given grammatical class, as a pronoun used to replace a noun or noun phrase, there used to replace an adverbial phrase of place, or so… …   From formal English to slang

• it — /ɪt / (say it), weak form /ət / (say uht) pronoun third person, singular, neuter, subjective and objective the pronoun which corresponds to he and she, used: 1. as a substitute for a neuter noun or a noun representing something possessing sex… …  

• antecedent — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin antecedent , antecedens, from Latin, what precedes, from neuter of antecedent , antecedens, present participle of antecedere to go before, from ante + cedere to go… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Esperanto — This article is about the language. For other uses, see Esperanto (disambiguation). Esperanto Created by L. L. Zamenhof Date created …   Wikipedia

• antecedent — antecedental /an teuh see den tl/, adj. antecedently, adv. /an teuh seed nt/, adj. 1. preceding; prior: an antecedent event. n. 2. a preceding circumstance, event, object, style, phenomenon, etc. 3. antecedents, a. ancestors. b. the history,… …   Universalium