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Grammar Singular Plural
Person
Used in place of a speaker or speakers
1
I love We love
First- America! America!
Person
Pronoun
I replaces Maria. We replaces
Susan and Maria.

Used in place of a person or persons spoken to
2

Second- You You
Person swim well. swim today.
Pronoun

You replaces Maria. You replaces Ben and Jake.

Used in place of person(s) or thing(s) spoken about
3
He replaces Jake, a person. They replaces parents and
Third- He loves refers to people.
Person hamburgers. They visit
Pronoun the pool.

Anna talking about Jake
Anna talking about
She replaces Kelly, a person. her parents
She is here.
They replaces balls and
refers to things.
They
Andy talking about Kelly are big.

It replaces the ball, a thing.
Ben talking about two balls
It is big.

Ben talking about the ball

Personal pronouns refer to persons. The exceptions
are the pronoun “it,” which refers to inanimate things,
and the pronoun “they,” which sometimes refers
to inanimate things.

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