Sentence examples for pronoun from inspiring English sources

But while it is pretty easy to remember a new name, some found it harder to know which pronoun to use.

Your sincere but uninformed Facebook pal, who truly just wants to understand why it's not #AllLivesMatter or which pronoun to use for Caitlyn Jenner is the social media equivalent of the friend who wanders in halfway through the movie and says: Who's that?

No 99 on my list of "things that shouldn't bother me, but they do" is the fact that the English language has no second person plural pronoun (SPPP) and that "you" is used interchangeably.

The fatal pronoun is "they": it looks like a conscious attempt by well-heeled Tories to distance themselves from the great unwashed, who are presumably all getting hammered in bingo halls.

So when and how did "you" become a catch-all pronoun?

In Danish, it is det er mig ("it is me"), using the accusative pronoun, not det er jeg ("it is I").

So if the subject of the sentence It was he is nominative, so should the pronoun in the predicate be: it = he.

English has a gap in its pronoun set.

If we later use a pronoun for that same person, of unknown or unimportant sex, some traditionalists say that "he" is the best solution someone is singular, so the pronoun must be too.

The disjunction between the grammar (singular) and meaning (plural) is the reason why many people, when they need a pronoun to go with everyone, choose they, them and their (Everyone came to the party with their husband or wife).Everyone is hardly the only case where grammatical number and actual meaning part ways.

Consider changing the word to agree with the pronoun.Grammarly seems to think that the verb "are" has as its subject the pronoun "each", but of course the subject is "the objectives".In one final test, a student paragraph containing six errors that I counted, Grammarly again detected none.