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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).
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.
“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 ...
She occasionally appears as a modifier in a noun phrase. Subject: She's there; her being there; she paid for herself to be there. Object: I saw her; I introduced him to her; She saw herself. Predicative complement: The only person there was her. Dependent determiner: This is her book. Independent determiner: This is hers. Adjunct: She did it ...
Neopronouns are nonbinary pronouns distinct from the common she, he and they. Terms such as “xe” and “em” are often used by trans and nonbinary people. A guide to neopronouns, from ae to ze
Pronouns also often take different forms based on their syntactic function, and in particular on their grammatical case. English distinguishes the nominative form (I, you, he, she, it, we, they), used principally as the subject of a verb, from the oblique form (me, you, him, her, it, us, them), used principally as the object of a
“I present as feminine and people may assume that I use she/her pronouns. For me, that’s OK, but using they/them would be more validating to me.” | Opinion
Subject pronouns are typically in nominative form (e.g., She works here.), though independent genitives are also possible (e.g., Hers is better. In non-finite clauses, however, there is more variety, an example of form-meaning mismatch .