Talk:Antecedent (grammar)
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I followed the simple example about John, but the following 2 examples are completely unclear to me. The antecedent is shown in bold, but I don't see at all the pronoun as in the John example. Please clarify on the article page!
- The family that eats together, stays together.
- As I was going up the stairs, I met a man who wasn't there...
Rugops 09:30, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
The first example marks a zero anaphor, that is an anaphor which has no surface representation but is inferred by syntax or semantics, in this example a zero anaphor appears as the subject of the verb stays. The second example the pronoun is the relative pronoun who. I will add a clarification for the first, the second I feel is well enough explained on the page.
--Johnmccrae 15:08, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- As I parse it, the subject of "eats" is "that", whose antecedent is "the family", and the subject of "stays" is the whole phrase "The family that eats together". -phma 00:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
