Editing Dependent-marking language (section)

==In English==
[[English language|English]] has few inflectional markers of agreement and so can be construed as zero-marking much of the time. Dependent-marking, however, occurs when a singular or plural noun demands the singular or plural form of the demonstrative determiner ''this/these'' or ''that/those'' and when a verb or preposition demands the subject or object form of a personal pronoun: ''I/me'', ''he/him'', ''she/her'', ''they/them'', ''who/whom''. The following representations of [[dependency grammar]] illustrate some cases:<ref>Dependency grammar trees similar to the ones that appear here can be found en masse in Ágel et al. (2003/6).</ref> 

:[[File:Dependent marking 1.png|Dependent marking 1]]

Plural nouns in English require the plural form of a dependent demonstrative determiner, and prepositions require the object form of a dependent personal pronoun.