{"id":74141,"date":"2020-04-20T09:25:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T09:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74141"},"modified":"2020-04-20T09:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T09:25:20","slug":"how-to-use-personal-pronouns-correctly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/how-to-use-personal-pronouns-correctly\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Use Personal Pronouns Correctly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Agreement with the noun<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/what-are-personal-pronouns\/\">Personal pronouns<\/a> must agree with the nouns they stand for in number, gender and person.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>John\u00a0<\/b>is a good student.\u00a0<b>He\u00a0<\/b>won a prize in mathematics.<\/li>\n<li><b>Alice\u00a0<\/b>sings well.\u00a0<b>She\u00a0<\/b>has a golden voice.<\/li>\n<li><b>The children\u00a0<\/b>went on a picnic.\u00a0<b>They\u00a0<\/b>had a nice time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that here the pronouns\u00a0<b>he, she\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>they<\/b>\u00a0are of the same number, gender and person as the nouns John, Alice and children respectively.<\/p>\n<h3>Singular nouns connected by and<\/h3>\n<p>When two singular nouns are connected by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/the-conjunctions-and-or-but\/\"><b>and<\/b><\/a>, but refer to the same person, the pronoun should be singular.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My uncle\u00a0<b>and\u00a0<\/b>guardian\u00a0<b>has<\/b>\u00a0given\u00a0<b>his\u00a0<\/b>consent to my plan. (Here the nouns uncle and guardian refer to the same person.)<\/li>\n<li>The Secretary\u00a0<b>and\u00a0<\/b>Treasurer put\u00a0<b>his\u00a0<\/b>signature to the document.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When two singular nouns connected by\u00a0<b>and<\/b>\u00a0represent different individuals, the pronoun should be in the plural.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My uncle\u00a0<b>and\u00a0<\/b>my guardian\u00a0<b>have<\/b>\u00a0given\u00a0<b>their\u00a0<\/b>consent to my plan.<\/li>\n<li>The Secretary\u00a0<b>and\u00a0<\/b>the treasurer<b>\u00a0were<\/b>\u00a0asked to settle\u00a0<b>their\u00a0<\/b>differences quickly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Position of I<\/h3>\n<p>Good manners require that\u00a0<b>I\u00a0<\/b>should come last in expressions like, John, Peter and I, Harry and I, You and I etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You and\u00a0<b>I\u00a0<\/b>can do this job together.<\/li>\n<li>Robert and\u00a0<b>I\u00a0<\/b>have planned to go to Delhi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The rule is: the person addressed should come first, the person spoken of second and the speaker himself last.<\/p>\n<h3>They with singular reference<\/h3>\n<p><b>They\/them\/their<\/b>\u00a0is often used to refer to a singular indefinite person who has already been mentioned. This is particularly common after indefinite pronouns like\u00a0<i>a person, anybody\/one, somebody\/one, nobody\/one, whoever, each, every, either, neither and no<\/i>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If<b>\u00a0anybody\u00a0<\/b>calls take\u00a0<b>their\u00a0<\/b>name and address.<\/li>\n<li><b>Somebody\u00a0<\/b>left\u00a0<b>their\u00a0<\/b>umbrella behind yesterday. Will\u00a0<b>they<\/b>\u00a0come and collect it from the office?<\/li>\n<li><b>Nobody\u00a0<\/b>was late, were<b>\u00a0they?<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This use of\u00a0<b>they\/them\/their<\/b>\u00a0is convenient when the sex of the person referred to is unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agreement with the noun Personal pronouns must agree with the nouns they stand for in number, gender and person. John\u00a0is a good student.\u00a0He\u00a0won a prize in mathematics. Alice\u00a0sings well.\u00a0She\u00a0has a golden voice. 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