Pronouns are types of words whose referent is determined from the link they establish with other terms that have usually already been named. The elements of a pronoun can stand as the noun phrase or the noun.
It is possible to recognize different kinds of pronouns. Emphatic pronouns are those that have an exclamatory or interrogative tone.
When, who, where, how much, that, which y as componen el cluster de los pronombres enfáticos. Al igual que ocurre con el resto de los pronombres, su significado está asociado al context.
It is important to keep in mind that emphatic pronouns have a diacritical accent , emphasizing their value through the accent . Its use occurs in exclamatory sentences and interrogative sentences.
For example: "When should we meet with the accountant?" , "Who is that man who is talking to Facundo?" , "I don't know where I left the keys..." , "How much do I owe you?" , "What didn't happen to me on this trip!" , "What's your problem now?" , "How do you say something like that!" .
As can be seen, emphatic pronouns can appear in direct exclamations and questions (recognizable by the presence of the signs – ? – – ! ) and in indirect exclamations and questions (which do not carry the aforementioned signs ).
«Who is that man who is talking to Facundo?» is a direct interrogative sentence that includes the emphatic pronoun who . That same emphatic pronoun can be used in indirect expressions such as "They already told me who was responsible for this problem." Likewise , where can be used directly ( “Where did you hide?” ) or indirectly ( “I don't know where I left the keys” ).
But the diacritic accent is often used incorrectly, in sentences that have versions of these words that do not have an accent. For example: " When I finish writing this book I will take a well-deserved vacation." In this case, we are dealing with a relative adverb , which never has an accent.
This term can also be interpreted as a conjunction in the following example: " When there is no strength left, how do we get up and move forward?" «. A third use defines it as a preposition: "When the collapse, the neighbors were very compassionate."
Returning to emphatic pronouns, we can clarify that in a question, whether direct or indirect, the word when is also qualified as an interrogative adverb , while in the case of an exclamation it is an exclamatory adverb .
Something similar happens with the rest of the emphatic pronouns, although in all cases they are not grouped in the same way but rather there are differences. Take the word who , for example, without an accent: instead of being an interrogative or exclamatory pronoun, it is actually a relative one and is used to refer to a person in sentences such as the following:
«This is the doctor I have told you so much about», "We should not trust anyone who has betrayed us", «It's just that no matter how much will I put in, there is no one who can stand it». En ninguno de estos casos existe una ask cuya respuesta sea el nombre de un individuo, la identidad de alguien, por lo cual es fácil entender que no estamos ante la palabra who.
Writing our language presents us with these and other challenges, but we must always keep in mind that if we learn the rules of spelling and study grammar in depth we will obtain the necessary tools to avoid errors. Although the number of concepts that identify different types of words can be overwhelming at first, there are little tricks that can help us find the correct spelling even if we don't remember the exact name. In the case of emphatic pronouns, they have an accent because they formulate questions and exclamations, direct or indirect; If we do not detect these intentions, then the accent is unnecessary.