Questions tagged [personal-pronouns]
For questions about pronouns that refer to a specific person or thing, like 'he', 'she', 'it', or 'they'.
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Correct pronoun in reported speech
What is the correct reported speech for
She said to me, "When are we going to leave?"
Is it:
A) She asked me when they were going to leave.
B) She asked me when we were going to leave.
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"The sight of her rendered him speechless." — Why place "her" after nouns? Why not say just "Her sight rendered him speechless."?
britannica.com:
(1) The sight of her rendered him speechless.
"Of her" looks rather strange to me. I would have expected to see something like:
(2) Her sight rendered him speechless.
So, why ...
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To whom does "her" refer in "Her relationship with then-Senator Palpatine and his successor had been calm"?
In Star Wars: Queen's Shadow, Padme, the former queen and the current senator of Naboo, has returned to her home planet after a visit to Breha. Note that Palpatine is the previous senator for Naboo, ...
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'For (his) betrayal, the general was simply demoted a little in rank.' vs. 'For the general's betrayal he was simply demoted a little in rank.'
I am trying to translate a sentence into English. Here is what I have got:
For the general's betrayal, he was simply demoted a little in rank.
For his betrayal, the general was simply demoted a ...
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Who does "she" refer to in "She wasn’t the jealous type, but she’d always been curious, and Sabé rarely did anything first."?
In Star Wars: Queen's Shadow, there is a conversation between Padmé and Sabé:
“Do you like him enough?”, Padme said.
“I don’t know,” Sabé said. “We’ve talked about it, so it’s not like I’m leading ...
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"They had invited Tim as well as <myself> <me>". — Is "myself" correct to you here or only "me" is correct? [duplicate]
the textbook "the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language", page 1494, example 39i:
(1) Both the local authority and myself have gone to the minister. — I was told here it's incorrect but ...
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"Both the local authority and <myself> <me> <I> have gone to the minister." — Do all these pronouns work here?
I'd like to know what pronouns I can use inside the construction "both ... and ..." when it's used as a subject.
For this purpose, I have the following example:
the textbook "the ...
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"The house has a cat in it." — Why is "it" grammatical? Why is there not "itself" instead?
ell.stackexchange.com:
(1) The house has a cat in it.
my variant:
(2) The house has a cat in itself.
As far as I understand, "itself" must be correct here.
But I can't understand how it is ...
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What form of the verb is used with a subject like "little me"?
I want to say that I look innocent in an old picture of mine and I don't know if I should say:
"Little me looks so innocent"; or
"Little me look so innocent" (without an "s&...
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Compare something with somebody
We shouldn't compare our clothes or shoes with our classmates.
We shouldn't compare our clothes or shoes with those of our classmates'.
(Meaning: you don't have to keep up with the Joneses )
I want ...
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article + personal pronoun: "After I lose some weight, I will be <a> lighter me."
wordreference.com:
(1) After I lose some weight, I will be a lighter me.
my variant:
(2) After I lose some weight, I will be lighter me.
"A" is an article, so it cannot be before a personal ...
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Is "author" in third person?
"The author is brilliant" - here, is "the author" in third person? Usually, he, she, and they are considerd to be third persons. Is the above considered to be in third person?
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"Yourself" as a personal pronoun?
I was writing a message recently and I noticed that I had reflexively (probably trying to sound more official) written:
It should be done by either Klavs or yourself.
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"It" -- a dummy subject or not?
The following are two example sentences of "versus" in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
The first question: Is the "it" a dummy subject in both?
The second question: Could ...
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"If you see mistakes in my text, say <it> <them> <this> <these> <that> <those> to me please."
All sentences below are mine.
I think (1), (2) & (3) are correct and mean the same:
(1) If you see mistakes in my text, say them to me please. — correct because "them" refers to "...
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