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Meanings of plural pronoun in English

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Usage of plural pronoun in English
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The plural pronoun struck me, and involuntarily I looked up at Mrs. Grancy's portrait.
Crucial Instances
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The captain condescended to use the plural pronoun.
Can You Forgive Her?
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But so is the first-person plural pronoun.
Wired
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The plural pronoun included his mother.
If Winter Comes
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She had never used the plural pronoun before, and I thought of that odious woman in Guernsey-anunpleasant recollection.
The Doctor's Dilemma
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By using the plural pronoun.
An English Grammar
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By this time Imogen had made out that here the plural pronoun, third person, always referred to the artists.
The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories
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She didn't really need her ability to taste emotions directly to sense her subordinates' response to her use of the plural pronoun.
War Of Honor
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But English has a precedent for a plural pronoun coming to be used in the singular - the pronoun "you".
Radio NZ
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They would not, when our plural pronoun "you" was still only plural, speak to one man as if he were two or more.
The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself
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Something about his inflection on the plural pronouns made Marrou's skin crawl.
Worlds of Honor
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Our language requires me to use singular or plural pronouns, thus misleading you greatly.
Analog sff, december 2009
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(2) The Divine Name "God" is a plural word; plural pronouns are used of God.
The Great Doctrines of the Bible
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"I don't know how we could have missed it," said Lucy, carefully choosing a plural pronoun.
Bake sale murder
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"We know not why it is," says St. Catherine of Genoa, "we feel an internal necessity of using the plural pronoun instead of the singular."
The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)
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Plural pronoun through the time