Questions tagged [personal-pronouns]
Questions related to personal pronoun, an independent pronoun which can have various forms according to gender, number, person, and case.
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Why does English only have one form of we/us?
I have tried googling this and looking here to no avail. Why does English only have one we? What I mean is, why aren't there two forms for:
Me and someone else excluding you
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"such as yourselves" or "such as you"
Would it be
Without patrons such as yourselves, we could not have this event.
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Without patrons such as you, we could not have this event.
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Can there be two cases of pronoun in a sentence?
"She is doing her best to do the job"
The pronoun "her" is confusing me, it could be either in objective case 'cause it acts as object complement or in possessive case 'cause it ...
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Is "meet with X and me" (instead of "X and myself") liable to look wrong to stupid administrators?
My natural instinct is to write, "X met with M and me in June." But I've noticed that school officials tend to use "myself" in place of "me" in this type of sentence.
A related ELU question ...
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Is it necessary to use personal pronoun with whatever, whoever etc. everytime?
Consider the following sentences:
1. Whatever you give, I'll eat.
2. Whatever you give, will be eaten.
Now consider this:
3.a) Whatever happens, happens for good.
3.b) Whatever happens, it happens for ...
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Can you use "him" for a wolf?
I encountered this:
This is like dangling a big, juicy steak in front of a wolf, without letting him eat it.
Using "him" for a wolf sounds sort of non-native English, as if the sentence ...
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Each of the girls in Mark's shop spent "their" or "her" money buying cakes
Can you please tell me if we would use their or her as a possessive pronoun in this sentence?
Each of the girls in Mark's shop spent their money buying cakes.
Each of the girls in Mark's shop spent ...
