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• There are some very common words in our language that can’t be
interpreted at all if
• we don’t know the context, especially the physical context of the
speaker. These are
• words such as here and there, this or that, now and then, yesterday,
today or tomorrow,
• as well as pronouns such as you, me, she, him, it, them. Some sentences
of English are
• virtually impossible to understand if we don’t know who is speaking,
about whom,