What is the antecedent of the first "you" in the sentence: "Did you find the article of clothing you lost and were looking for, Dan"?
1 Answer
Jul 2, 2017
The antecedent of the personal pronoun "you" is Dan.
Explanation:
The personal pronoun "you" is a second person pronoun, a word that takes the place of a noun (name) for the person spoken to , which is Dan.
Very often, the second person pronoun does not have an antecedent in the sentence because when we speak to someone, we don't always use their name or a noun for that person.
The first person pronouns (I and me) almost never have an antecedent because we don't normally use our own names when speaking of ourselves.
