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- He's going to get into a fight, John is.
- If you want to, you can do the dishes.
- He is the man of the hour. He needs no introduction. He is our next candidate for President. I give you Richard Nixon. |
FromAncient Greekκαταφορά(kataphorá,“a downward motion”), fromκατά(katá,“downwards”) +φέρω(phérō,“I carry”).
- IPA(key): /kætəˈfɔɹə/,/kəˈtæfəɹə/
cataphora (countable anduncountable,pluralcataphoras)
- (linguistics, rhetoric) The use of apronoun, or otherlinguisticunit, before thenoun phrase to which itrefers, sometimes used forrhetoricaleffect.
referring to a noun that appears later
