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Old English had a single third-person pronoun hē, which had both singular and plural forms, and they wasn't among them. In or about the start of the 13th century, they was imported from a Scandinavian source (Old Norse þeir, Old Danish, Old Swedish þer, þair), in which it was a masculine plural demonstrative pronoun.
The words there, their, and they're are examples of three words that are of a singular pronunciation, have different spellings and vastly different meanings. These three words are commonly misused (or, alternatively, misspelled). [14] there – "The bow shot the arrow there," he said as he pointed. their – "It was their bow and arrow." the ...
Singular they, along with its inflected or derivative forms, them, their, theirs, and themselves (also themself and theirself), is a gender-neutral third-person pronoun. It typically occurs with an indeterminate antecedent , to refer to an unknown person, or to refer to every person of some group, in sentences such as:
Nobody is singing the former president's praises over his terrible debate performance, but some people are turning his words into song.
A variation of "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" was also done by Jerry Samuels on the same album, titled "The Place Where the Nuts Hunt the Squirrels", where Samuels, towards the end of the track, repeats the line: "they're trying to drive me sane" before the song's fade, in a fast-tracked higher voice.
They’re unresponsive We’re all busy, but if you’re paying a financial advisor to manage your money, that isn’t a good enough reason for them to be unresponsive. They should be readily ...
The true measure of their success, they say, is that the friends and family members who've previewed the suites have been wowed. "That's what we’re trying to do," Otto says, "is to transport you ...
A homophone (/ ˈ h ɒ m ə f oʊ n, ˈ h oʊ m ə-/) is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning or in spelling. The two words may be spelled the same, for example rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or spelled differently, as in rain , reign , and rein .