1. words or phrases that refer back to previously mentioned words or phrases in a text
Usage: linguistics; grammar

Examples

• In the sentence ‘John bought a car and he drove it home,’ both ‘he’ and ‘it’ are anaphors.
• Pronouns are common anaphors that help avoid repetition in writing.
• The linguist studied how anaphors create cohesion in discourse.
• Students learned to identify anaphors and their antecedents in the passage.
• Anaphors like ‘this’ and ‘that’ can refer to entire clauses or ideas.
• The grammar book explained how anaphors maintain textual coherence.