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  2. One (pronoun) - Wikipedia

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    One must help oneself. Predicative complement: One need only be oneself. Dependent determiner: Being with one's friends is a joy. Independent determiner: (no known examples) Such sentences as one's is broken; I sat on one's; I broke one's; etc. are not found. Adjunct: One must do it oneself. Modifier: (no known examples)

  3. English personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and ...

  4. English nouns - Wikipedia

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    yourself yours your Plural you you yourselves yours your Third person Singular Masculine he: him himself his his Feminine she: her herself hers her Neuter it: it itself its Epicene: they: them themself theirs their Plural they: them themselves theirs their Indefinite (Generic) one: one oneself one's Wh-form Relative & interrogative Personal who ...

  5. 13 words you should never use to describe yourself - AOL

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    We recommend you avoid these 13 words when describing yourself to make a great first impression and better your chances of landing a job. Click through for 13 words to steer clear of: More from ...

  6. Illeism - Wikipedia

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    ɪ z əm /; from Latin ille: “he; that man”) is the act of referring to oneself in the third person instead of first person. It is sometimes used in literature as a stylistic device. In real-life usage, illeism can reflect a number of different stylistic intentions or involuntary circumstances.

  7. Personal pronoun - Wikipedia

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    In these languages there is generally a small set of nouns that refer to the discourse participants, but these referential nouns are not usually used (pronoun avoidance), with proper nouns, deictics, and titles being used instead (and once the topic is understood, usually no explicit reference is made at all). A speaker chooses which word to ...

  8. Reflexive pronoun - Wikipedia

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    A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same sentence.. In the English language specifically, a reflexive pronoun will end in -self or -selves, and refer to a previously named noun or pronoun (myself, yourself, ourselves, themselves, etc.).

  9. Oneself - Wikipedia

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    Oneself is the reflexive form of the pronoun one.It may also refer to: Self, an individual person as the object of his or her own reflective consciousness . Philosophy of self, which defines the essential qualities that make one person distinct from all others