His vs Thons - What's the difference?
his | thons | Hyponyms |
Belonging to him.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.i:
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his' man would be there with a message to say that ' his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.}}
* 2011 , Xan Rice, The Guardian , 8 Apr 2011:
(obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
*, II.2:
* 1611 , Matthew 5:13, King James Version:
(archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s'' after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in ''-s , to express the possessive case.
That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
(neologism, archaic) Belonging to thon, their (singular).
* {{quote-journal, year = 1889
, month = November
, title = That Desired Impersonal Pronoun
, journal = The Writer
, first = C. Crozat
, last = Converse
, publisher = William H. Hills
, city = Boston
, volume = 3
, issue = 2
, page = 248
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QQQ-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA248
, passage = Every writer has "thons " verbal likes and dislikes, yet, for the sake of convenience, I trust that even "thon" who dislikes verbal innovations will give my little word a little trial and note for me the result.
}}
* {{quote-journal, year = 1895
, month = July
, title = The New Pronoun
, journal = The Public-School Journal
, publisher = Public-School Publishing Co.
, city = Bloomington
, volume = 14
, issue = 11
, page = 613
, quotee = The Lynchburg Record
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=3fkBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA613
, passage = I hope that each student will have learned thons algebra lesson perfectly this morning.
}}
* {{quote-book, year = 1895
, title = Outlines of Psychology
, first = Henry Graham
, last = Williams
, publisher = C. W. Bardee
, location = Syracuse
, edition = 3rd
, page = 5
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=_BEAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5
, passage = Every student should acquaint thonself with some method by which thon can positively correlate the facts of thons knowledge.
}}
Thons is a hyponym of his.
As a determiner his
is belonging to him.As a pronoun his
is that which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.As an adjective thons is
belonging to thon, their singular. Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with {{term|his and {{term|her}}.}.his
English
(wikipedia his)Determiner
- With that he put his spurres vnto his steed, / With speare in rest, and toward him did fare, / Like shaft out of a bow preuenting speed.
- In his first televised address since the siege in Abidjan began this week, Ouattara said he would focus on returning the country to normal to ease the plight of civilians.
- My stomacke could not well reach so farre: it is very much troubled to come to an end of that which it takes for his need.
- Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
- Ahab his mark'' for ''Ahab's mark .
Usage notes
* When followed by a noun, it is sometimes referred to as a possessive adjective , qualifying the following noun. It is, however, the possessive case of the personal pronoun he.See also
(English personal pronouns)Pronoun
- The decision was his to live with.