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The masculine pronouns, he, him, and his are used to refer to male persons. The feminine pronouns she, her, and hers are used to refer to female persons. It and its are normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract concept; however, babies and young children may sometimes be referred to as it (e.g. a child needs its mother).
He occasionally appears as a modifier in a noun phrase. Subject: He's there; him being there; his being there; he paid for himself to be there. Object: I saw him; I introduced her to him; He saw himself. Predicative complement: The only person there was him. Dependent determiner: I met his friend. Independent determiner: This is his.
A set of four badges, created by the organizers of the XOXO art and technology festival in Portland, Oregon. Preferred gender pronouns (also called personal gender pronouns, often abbreviated as PGP [1]) are the set of pronouns (in English, third-person pronouns) that an individual wants others to use to reflect that person's own gender identity.
Previous pronoun debates revolved around the non-inclusivity of using “he” as a generic pronoun (as in the Bible: “He that is without sin among you, let him be the first to cast a stone ...
Person B: Well put him outside [14] Animate pronouns he and she are usually applied to animals when personification and/or individuation occurs. [14] Personification occurs whenever human attributes are applied to the noun. [14] For example: A widow bird sat mourning for her love. [14]
“There are days where I feel like a woman and a man at the same time, while other times I’m a human roaming this Earth, and gender has nothing to do with it," says a 22-year-old who goes by ...
These Hollywood stars have opened up about not fitting into a strictly "male" or "female" category. ... "I use he/him pronouns at this point," Tortorella said on his podcast "Full of Shift," which ...
The pronoun may then be said to "replace" or "stand for" the antecedent, and to be used so as to avoid repeating the antecedent. Some examples: John hid and we couldn't find him. (John is the antecedent of him) After he lost his job, my father set up a small grocer's shop. (my father is the antecedent of he, although it comes after the pronoun)