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Pronouns

Pronoun types

Personal pronouns

Possessive personal pronouns

Questioning pronouns

Indefinite pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns

Reflexive pronouns

Intensive pronouns

Pronouns and antecedents

Avoiding confusing antecedent and pronoun situations

Consistent use of the pronoun it

Pronouns - singular or plural

The difference between who and whom

Pronoun consistency

First person

Second person

Third person

All third person

All first person

All third person

All second person

All first person:

We are constantly amazed by the athleticism of the top sports stars. We cheer when we see our favourite star perform a seemingly impossible manoeuvre.

Here’s another example (which I could have written writing this book late at night when I was really tired):

One should try to use correct grammar, one tends to get a better mark if you do.

Yuck, yuck! I’ve started off in the third person - ‘one’. Then at the end of the sentence, I switch to the second person - ‘you’. Convert the whole sentence to the same person; either one will do:

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