21st Century Grammar Handbook



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21st century grammar
21st century grammar, transformation, transformation, - - - .pdf;filename*= UTF-8''অনুবাদ চর্চা (প্রথম আলো পত্রিকা থেকে-২৯-০৩-২০২০)-1, 21st century grammar
Principal, principle. Do not confuse these words that soundalike (homonyms).
“Principal” means mean or primary as either an adjective or noun: The principal means of attaining success is hard work said the school principal main o cial].”
In nancial terms, principal is the main body of money in an investment.
“Principle” means rule or belief The main principles of Buddhism are not commonly known in this country.”


Principle. See principal.
Proceed. See precede.
Pronoun. Words that stand for more speci c nouns are called pronouns The common pronouns come in many types personal pronouns, demonstrative, intensi ers,
interrogative, reciprocal pronouns, re exive pronouns, and relative pronouns. There are entries for each of the important pronouns and for each of these types. Please consult those speci c entries as well as the brief description of their functioning given below along with a list of the most common pronouns in each group.
PERSONAL
. Personal pronouns are used in place of speci c things or people. Ii you, he,

she, it, we, and they are all the personal pronouns.
DEMONSTRATIVE
. These pronouns that indicate speci c things or people and suggest their relationship to the speaker this, these and that, those are the singulars and
plurals of the demonstratives that suggest, respectively, closeness or immediacy versus remoteness.
INTENSIVE
. Pronouns that add “self” (selves in plural) can be used to emphasize the nouns they precede (I myself saw that. These forms are also re exive pronouns.
See emphasis.
INTERROGATIVE
. These pronouns indicate questioning what, which, and who.
RECIPROCAL
. These pronouns, each other and one another are used with plural
antecedents to indicate separate actions or conditions of the antecedent I saw the monkeys groom each other.”
REFLEXIVE
. Re exives are formed like the intensive pronouns by adding self or
“selves” (plural. These words standalone (unlike the intensive) and indicate actions or conditions that go back to the sentence or clause subject: The monkey groomed itself and its mate.”
RELATIVE
. These pronouns (“that” what whatever which whichever “who,”

and whoever) link dependent clauses to the main parts of sentences and indicate the relationship between such clauses and the sentence’s main thrust I saw the monkey that was grooming its partner, who was sitting nearby See also restrictive
clauses and nonrestrictive clauses.
Proper noun. In grammar terms, names are proper nouns Bill told Marie that the
Titanic had sunk with his copy of Tolstoy’s novel All the capitalized words in the example are proper nouns, or names of things or people (see capitalization). Proper nouns are almost always capitalized.
Prove, proved, proved. An irregular verb in its main, past tense, and past
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