Anaphora and Cataphora Defined
📌 Anaphora and Cataphora are pronoun usages designed to avoid the repetition of nouns within sentences or discourse.
🔗 Anaphora uses pronouns placed later in the sentence/discourse to refer back to a noun previously mentioned at the beginning.
⬅️ Cataphora uses pronouns placed earlier in the sentence/discourse to refer forward to a noun that appears later.

Examples of Anaphora (Referring Backward)
🦸‍♂️ Example: "Sina Bonifacio at Sulayman, the Filipino heroes, sila (they) are great Manilenyos." The pronoun sila replaces the repeated mention of the names.
🌴 Example: "Dos Palmas Resort in Palawan continues to be visited by tourists because sila (they) truly find it beautiful here." The pronoun sila refers back to "turista" (tourists).
🧍‍♀️ Example: "Chloe Berhings is one of the foreign tourists who went to Dos Palmas Resort because, according to kanya (her), it is her favorite spot." The pronoun refers back to Chloe Berhings.

Examples of Cataphora (Referring Forward)
🏙️ Example: "Ito (This) is a great city, Manila has a colorful history." The pronoun ito (this) points forward to Maynila (Manila).
👨 Example: "Siya (He) is the reason the glass broke; Mark was running inside the room earlier." The pronoun siya points forward to Mark.
👶 Example: "Her baby was crying earlier, so Manang Rosa fed ito (it)." The pronoun ito points forward to "baby."

Key Points & Insights
➡️ Anaphora ensures smoother reading by replacing antecedents with pronouns used after the noun (e.g., using sila after mentioning names).
➡️ Cataphora uses pronouns before the noun they represent, serving as a forward marker (e.g., using ito before mentioning Manila).
➡️ Mastering these structures helps in creating more fluid and less repetitive Filipino sentences.
➡️ Always remember that the key difference lies in the placement of the pronoun relative to the noun it replaces (later for Anaphora, earlier for Cataphora).

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