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What is an antecedent??? as In english...: I need help on this sentence:
One superstitious sailor can taint the whole company with his fear...
Would the antecedent be ?? and i also need the proper noun... Would it be his...
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The Webster's dictionary definition says an antecedent is a word, a phrase, a clause that gets refered to by using a pronoun. Much like this sentence John as in "Mary Saw John and called to him." Johhn is what you are looking for. It is also a word that is used to substitute something else in a sentence. As long as you know what the pronoun is it is rather easy to figure out your antecedent or ought be.
A pronoun is any small words used as substitutes to nouns and or noun phrases used in the same context as the usual word you substituted it by.
I cannot make the term proper noun come off simple. I know what it is and all that but my explanation might be hard. As you know a noun is a person, place, thing, and or quality someone possesses. Go with that and figure it out. Otherwise, ask another adult they ought to know from reading what one is and is not.
In the top sentence just remember this the person, thing, place, quality is the noun. Good, figure out what it is. What is the person doing or feeling? That's usually a verb or adjective etc. Find that and know it's not the antecedent. You'll know a proper noun when you figure out what other pieces of speech are there I can eliminate.
Let me know what happens. It will be wonderful when you learn this as you can then write better than a lot of people your age who never learned it.
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The antecedent is something that determines to what the pronoun refers. As in, "I asked Jodi what she was talking about." The pronoun "she" refers to Jodi, so Jodi is the antecedent. Does that make sense?
There is no proper noun in that sentence. A proper noun is a name of a person, place, or thing. They start with capitol letters. If the sentence read "Jack can taint the whole company with his fear...", the proper noun would be Jack. However, there are only common nouns in that sentence.
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There IS no proper noun in that sentance...and I'm afraid I can't help you at all with the antecedents-I've never been good at them. But this might help.
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