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Grammatical person and Singular they

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Grammatical person and Singular they

Grammatical person vs. Singular they

Grammatical person, in linguistics, is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person). Singular they is the use in English of the pronoun they or its inflected or derivative forms, them, their, theirs, and themselves (or themself), as an epicene (gender-neutral) singular pronoun.

Similarities between Grammatical person and Singular they

Grammatical person and Singular they have 6 things in common (in Unionpedia): Deixis, English personal pronouns, He, She, They, Third-person pronoun.

Deixis

In linguistics, deixis refers to words and phrases, such as “me” or “here”, that cannot be fully understood without additional contextual information -- in this case, the identity of the speaker (“me”) and the speaker's location (“here”).

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English personal pronouns

The personal pronouns in English take various forms according to number, person, case and natural gender.

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He

He is a masculine third-person, singular personal pronoun (subjective case) in Modern English.

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She

She is a feminine third-person, singular personal pronoun (subjective case) in Modern English.

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They

They is the third-person plural personal pronoun (subjective case) in Modern English.

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Third-person pronoun

A third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener.

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Grammatical person and Singular they Comparison

Grammatical person has 69 relations, while Singular they has 83. As they have in common 6, the Jaccard index is 3.95% = 6 / (69 + 83).

References

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