Nouns, person, and gender.

From: Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Date: Tue Dec 23 1997 - 11:25:04 EST


Here is a statement I made in one of my lessons:

"When a noun is a subject, it appears in the nominative, and agrees with
the verb in person and number, just as pronouns do."

That isn't quite right, since nouns do not have person. If you replace a
noun with a pronoun, though, the pronoun does have person, and the verb
would agree with the person of that pronoun.

Is there a better way to say this?

Jonathan
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