Questions related to personal pronoun, an independent pronoun which can have various forms according to gender, number, person, and case.
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What does “I” really mean? [closed]
When we refer to a human being by "I"/"you"/"he"/"she"/"Mary", what do we really mean? The more I think about it, the more confused I get. Do we mean living body or emotional/psychological world or ...
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When are you 'You', and when 'you'?
When is it in spelling that the personal pronoun 'you' should be written with capital Y?
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Skipping the words 'you' and 'did' in spoken English
Do sentences 1 and 2 mean the same thing? Are they when speaking? If yes, is the first sentence also acceptable in written English?
1) Don't see anything?
2) Don't you see anything?
How about ...
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Should a photograph label read “you and I” or “you and me”? [duplicate]
I had a debate with my friend about this topic because he had a photo captioned:
Seth and I playing lion king
and I said it should be
Seth and me playing lion king
Which is correct?
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“Theirs” vs. “their’s” [closed]
Which of the following two sentences is correct?
Your grammar is terrible, but you insult people for theirs?
Your grammar is terrible, but you insult people for their’s?
What would be correct ...
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Art cold? To what extent can pronouns be dropped in English?
Many European languages conjugate their verbs, thus:
I am
You are | Thou art
She is
We are
You are
They are
The form of the verb changes, depending on the person. In some languages ...
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Should a company be referred to as “he/she” or as “it”?
When a customer represents a company, not a person, and a pronoun is needed to refer back to that customer, should one use he/she, or should one use it?
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Should personal pronouns always be placed at the end of a list? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“My friends and I” vs. “My friends and me” vs. “Me and my friends”
Is naming the first person last proper grammar or just proper manners?
“Julio and I” vs “I and Julio”
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Which is correct, I or me? [duplicate]
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When do I use “I” instead of “me?”
Which is correct?
The photo shows my kids and me at the party.
The photo shows my kids and I at the party
Another one: ...
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What is the correct usage for I'm a girl in my early twenties?
Which is grammatically correct?
I am a girl in my early twenties.
or
I am a girl in her early twenties.
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“He and I”, “Him and me” [duplicate]
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“My friends and I” vs. “My friends and me” vs. “Me and my friends”
Somebody taught me a rule of thumb how to discern if I should use "I" or "Me" when adding self to the ...
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Proper usage of pronouns
As an ESL student, sometimes I wonder whether I use too many pronouns. For example:
She grabbed her purse, she took some money and then she went to buy some groceries. After that she returned ...
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Which English dialects have 2nd person plural?
"Y'all" is the famous southern US form of the 2nd person plural. The Brooklyn / Italian-American "youse" might be another.
While the existence and usage of "y'all" has been addressed somewhat ...
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“We”, “I”, “this author”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Style Question: Use of “we” vs. “I” vs. passive voice in a dissertation
Use of “I”, “we” and the passive voice in a scientific thesis
For my ...
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Can we say that “he” and “she” are cognates?
If they are cognates,what happened to the mophological changes on them historically?Such as the emergence of "h" in "she"?
she
mid-12c., probably evolving from O.E. seo, sio (acc. sie), fem. of ...
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Why 'a friend of mine' is not 'my friend's friend'?
I have some questions about the expression "a friend of mine" and I'm quite confused with it. Actually I have found some threads about this topic but they don't hit my point. I'm not a native English ...
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Using “she” with gender-neutral nouns
The song “Frozen” from Madonna’s Ray of Light (1998) contains the lyrics:
Love is a bird, she needs to fly,
Let all the hurt inside of you die.
Does she refer to bird or love? And why is it ...
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T-V distinction
In many languages, there is such thing as T-V distinction. Basically, it's when you use different pronouns in "formal" (or "polite") speech, and in informal speech.
Now, I do realize there is no ...
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“Nobody will help you but me” vs. “Nobody will help you but I”
As has been shown in another question, in comparisons with than both the accusative and the nominative are possible and grammatical:
He loves you more than I.
He loves you more than me.
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in spite of him/his
Jane told Marcos that in spite of (him/his) being small, he would definitely be a great asset to the team because of his athletic abilities.
In the above sentence, which of him/his is correct and ...
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Which pronoun to to replace single antecedent?
This is my all-time question. This time, I was writing specifications of my application and came up with this question. Which one of the following is more commonly used than the others? Note that I'm ...
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“He” or “she”, “his” or “her” for an ambiguous name
In Finland Kari is boy's name and in Norway it is girl's name. Suppose I meet a Norwegian Kari. Which one is correct?
First I heard his/her name I thought he/she is a boy but the I realized he/she ...
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“I am I”, “I am myself”, or “I am me”? [duplicate]
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When is it correct to use “yourself” and “myself” (versus “you” and “me”)?
According to Google Ngram, "I am myself" is more common that "I am I", but which is correct?
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It is I who am at fault? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“It is they who lied” or “it is them who lied?”
What rules make “Remember me, who am your friend” grammatical?
Which one of these is correct?
It is I who am at ...
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Why is the accusative case used for a “topic”?
If I were to write a book about myself, Me would be a more natural-sounding title than I. Also, we say the us-vs.-them mentality instead of the we-vs.-they mentality.
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Term for types of first person plural
I've noticed that there are two types of first person plural – one where the addressee is included, and one where she or he isn't. For example:
With addressee included:
Let us go.
What's our plan?
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What's the right possessive pronoun for “nobody”? [duplicate]
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Is there a correct gender-neutral, singular pronoun (“his” versus “her” versus “their”)?
None as plural indefinite pronoun
Should ...
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Why are “player”, “researcher” and “designer” referred to by a feminine gender specific pronoun? [duplicate]
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Can the feminine pronouns be gender-neutral?
Reason for the current trend to use "she" as the gender-neutral pronoun?
In a lot of academic literature that I'm reading ...
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Name a person who loves to do things manually
What will you call a person who loves to do things manually rather than using any technology tools.
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“Your and my [something]” vs “Yours and my…”
Prompted by comments against this question, I'd like some help figuring out why some people (myself included) prefer yours over the apparently more logical/grammatically consistent your in this kind ...
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comparative construction used with pronouns, especially 'her'
I was recently pulled up by a colleague when I made a statement along the lines of I am a better player than her. My colleague suggested the correct statement should be better player than she is ...
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“One of them was/were you”
If I am talking to somebody about a certain group of people in the third person, and then want to refer to the person I am talking with as one of those people, which do I say?
One of them were you
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Why do we say “of mine/of his” instead of “of me/of him”?
He's a friend of mine.
That's a car of his.
Why do we use the possessive when the meaning would be the same while not using it (e.g. a friend of me and a car of him)? I thought maybe it is ...
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“The great I” vs “The great me”
Are both sentences below grammatically correct?
The great I.
The great me.
What is the grammatical breakdown in each case?
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Can 'one' replace an antecedent?
Over at Judaism.SE someone asked a question with the title
(1) What is the source for not walking with one's hands behind his back
and someone else edited it to read
(2) What is the source ...
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What is the answer to the question “Who came yesterday?” — “I” or “Me”? [duplicate]
Duplicate of:
Who wants ice-cream?
What is the answer to the question:
Who came yesterday?
Is it "I" or "Me"?
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When is the construction “I myself” suitable? [closed]
A previous question, How to call attention to "I" without "I myself" or the pretentious "Even I"?, suggested that the "I myself" construction is often used for emphasis, with one answer correctly ...
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What rules make “Remember me, who am your friend” grammatical?
An acquaintance recalled this specific example from an English textbook, but it is jarring to my native ear. Is this an example of prescriptive grammarians gone wild?
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“People like you” versus “people like yourself”?
In the latest South Park episode, I noticed a line:
We have so many abandoned babies and
not enough people like yourself who
care.
Which kinda struck me, because I'd expect it to be people ...
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How to take the gender of an anonymous person into consideration? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Gender neutral pronoun
Very often, I find myself writing about a user, an anonymous person whose gender I don't know.
Right after mentioning this abstract user, I need ...
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Use of “I”, “we” and the passive voice in a scientific thesis [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Style Question: Use of “we” vs. “I” vs. passive voice in a dissertation
When the first person voice is used in scientific writing it is mostly ...
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Difference between “Please don't be long” and “Please don't YOU be long”
In the song "Blue Jay Way" from the Beatles, we've got the following lyrics :
Please don't be long
Please don't you be very long
I'm (obviously) not a native English speaker but the first ...
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Why are pronouns always given in the same order? I, you, he, etc? [closed]
Not just English
Why are pronouns when conjugating verbs always given in the same order.
I
You
He
She
We
You Plural
They (or he's and she's depending on the language)
Does anyone know?
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How to call attention to “I” without “I myself” or the pretentious “even I”?
I find that in persuasive conversation, whether written or oral, it is sometimes useful to draw attention to the "I" in the sentence, giving the connotation that you are confessing or conceding to ...
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In a business proposal, which personal pronoun should be used?
Which personal pronoun would you use in a business proposal?
Most people either go with first or third person, e.g.,
We propose this marketing plan.
or
Company x proposes this marketing ...
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“He” / “she” vs. “it” regarding beloved objects
Is that normal to regard a beloved object (an animal, a car, a book) as he/she? If yes, what gender should be used in this case?
One comment in this question touched the tendency to humanize things ...
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When to use “me” or “myself”?
Which one is correct:
Someone like me...
or
Someone like myself...
Is "like myself" ever correct?
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Advice for using multiple same-gender personal pronouns in the same sentence
I have often struggled with sentences that contain two characters of the same gender. For example, if there are two females, Alice and Carol, then the following sentence can be confusing.
Alice ...
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“Smarter than me” or “smarter than I”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
I can run faster than _. (1) him (2) he?
“like I” or “like me”?
Which of these is correct and why?
I always assumed it followed the rule of "which would be correct if ...
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Is “ship” a feminine word? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it a good practice to refer to countries, ships etc using the feminine form?
My English teacher asked me which third-person personal pronoun is used for the word ...
