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- THEY Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of THEY is those ones : those people, animals, or things How to use they in a sentence Can they be used as an indefinite subject?: Usage Guide
- THEY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
We use they and them to refer to specific groups of people, things and animals: … One, you, we and they are generic personal pronouns We can use one, you, we and they to refer to ‘people in general’ … We can use one, you or we when we are making generalisations and not referring to any one person in particular
- They - Wikipedia
In Modern English, they is a third-person pronoun relating to a grammatical subject In Standard Modern English, they has five distinct word forms: [1] them: the accusative (objective, called the ' oblique ' [2]: 146 ) and a non-standard determinative form
- A brief history of singular ‘they’
The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375, where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf Except for the old-style language of that poem, its use of singular they to refer to an unnamed person seems very modern
- THEY Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Nonbinary singular use of they, their, and them has become widely accepted in the 21st century It has become much more common for people in general to announce which pronoun they use or to ask what pronoun another person uses
- they - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
"They" refers to people in general (hence the expressions they say, so they say, you know what they say), whereas "one" refers to one person (often such that what is true for that person is true for everyone)
- Singular They | Usage, Examples History - Scribbr
The singular “they” is the use of the third-person plural pronoun they with a singular meaning—i e , to refer to one person without using “he” or “she ” The singular “they” has existed for hundreds of years, but it was long condemned as grammatically incorrect
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