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What is the only significant difference between
the 3rd person pronouns and the 1st/2nd?
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3rd person singular pronouns have gender.
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How is the 1) case, 2) number, 3) gender of a
pronoun determined?
- 1.
- By its function in the sentence
- 2.
- By the number of its antecedent
- 3.
- By the gender of its antecedent
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How is “autos” (smooth breathing) different from
“eyw” and “su” in it’s case endings?
- It uses the normal case endings and has gender. “eyw”
- and “su” do not.
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Why is it important to identify if “autos” has a
smooth breathing or not?
- Because there is another word “autos” that does
- not have a smooth breathing and it has a different meaning.
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What are the three uses of “autos”?
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Explain how “autos” (smooth breathing) is used
as a personal pronoun:
- 1.
- It is used as the 3rd person personal
- pronoun. This is its most common use. It
- is translated “he, she, it, they”.
- 2.
- Case is determined by its function
- 3.
- Gender and number are determined by its
- antecedent.
- 4.
- When showing possession, the pronoun usually
- follows the word it modifies
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Explain how “autos” (smooth breathing) is used
as an adjectival intensive.
- 1.
- When it is used as an adjective it functions as
- an intensifier and emphasizes the word it modifies.
- 2.
- When used this way, it normally modifies another word and is usually
- in the predicate position (predicate = to declare)
- 3.
- It is translated with the reflexive pronoun
- (himself, herself, itself, themselves, etc). ex: “Jesus Himself”
- 4.
- It agrees with the noun it modifies in case,
- number, and gender.
- 5.
- When used in this way it is usually in the
- nominative case and modifies the subject.
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Explain how “autos” (smooth breathing) is used
as an Identical Adjective
- 1.
- It is translated as “same”.
- 2.
- It is normally in the attributive position
- (article before both “autos” and the word it modifies – though not always).
- 3.
- Its case, number, and gender are determined by
- the word it modifies
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