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Do you know what my name means? Also, as others have pointed out, the particular anaphor you'd use here is "they" which is (generally) plural. Edit: sidenote,
by anaphor 13y ago
Do you know what my name means? Also, as others have pointed out, the particular anaphor you'd use here is "they" which is (generally) plural.
Edit: sidenote, this is why linguists dislike many people in the humanities who blindly follow "rules" and end up writing badly as a result because they make hypercorrections all over the place.
- coldtea 13y ago>Do you know what my name means? Well, I do. In simple terms, a word refering to another one in the same sentense/text (e.g. "My Xbox arrived and it was great" -- it being an anaphor for the Xbox). It's a shortened version of the greek word "anaphora", which means "reference" / relation etc. It comes from the words ana (which roughly means "again" or "anew") and phora (pherein) which means "carries" (connotes, etc). In the example case, "it" "carries again" the banana (in the sense that it refers to it again from another place).