Happy first day of July! The Word of the Day is:
-Pronoun-
1) Any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who and what.
2) One of a class of words that serves to replace a noun phrase that has already been or is about to be mentioned in the sentence or context.
3) If we substituted pronouns for the nouns in teh sentence "Please give the present to Karen," it would read "Please give it to her."
Famous Quotation:
"Would mankind be but contented without the continual use of that little but significant pronoun "mine" or "my own," with that luxurious delight might they revel in the property of others!... But if envy makes me sicken at the sight of everything that is excellent out of my own possession, then will the swettest food be sharp as vinegar and every beauty will in my depraved eyes appear as deformity.
- Sarah Fielding (1710-1768), British novelist, and Jane Collier. The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable, prologe to part 3 (1754).
