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Another me keeps warning me in my head!
Grammar (of English, Japanese, or any other language) is used mostly in real situations. In strange and unreal situations things don't work well.
For example, "I" or "me" is ...
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Why does the fictional character use the pronoun "thou" instead of "you"?
In modern usage, English has only one second-person pronoun, "you." In many other languages, there is a "formal" and an "informal" second-person pronoun, like "usted&...
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The pronoun in short yes/no answers to rhetorical tag-questions with the generic "you"
In English, when rhetorical tag questions are phrased with "you" (as in "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, don't you?"), the "you" is typically ...
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Are "I like when" and "I like it when" both grammatically correct, and if so, are they synonymous?
The easy part of the question is "if so, are they synonymous?". The answer is yes.
The hard part is "Are they both grammatically correct". Apparently, many people here in this ...
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Pronouns that refer to "team" (American English)
OP has enquired regarding the collective noun "team".
Is it possible to replace "they" with “It” in American English?
As stated in the post
We use the plural verb when we refer ...
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Pronouns that refer to "team" (American English)
When you have a group of people known by a collective noun - sports teams, musical groups, etc - there are choices in how you refer to them. Most commonly, the choice is whether to refer to them ...
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Pronouns that refer to "team" (American English)
Using "it" would sound extremely odd to me (native of the western US). Teams are a plural collectives and the members have intentions, both points militate against using "it".
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Who does "she" refer to in this excerpt from "The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam"?
As you said, Kant and Ghalazi are male. I believe you are right - 'she' is neither of them, and is the personification of something.
You'll see that rationalism is said to be an 'ally' of religion. ...
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