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Personal pronouns may be classified by person, number, gender and case. English has three persons (first, second and third) and two numbers (singular and plural); in the third person singular there are also distinct pronoun forms for male, female and neuter gender. | Personal pronouns may be classified by person, number, gender and case. English has three persons (first, second and third) and two numbers (singular and plural); in the third person singular there are also distinct pronoun forms for male, female and neuter gender. | ||
First person pronouns (I, me) have no gender, and second person pronouns (you, your) have no gender, so are the same for everyone regardless of gender identity. Third person pronouns may vary based on the gender of the person you're talking about. | First person pronouns (I, me) have no gender, and second person pronouns (you, your) have no gender, so are the same for everyone regardless of gender identity. | ||
Third person pronouns may vary based on the gender of the person you're talking about. Traditionally: | |||
* He/him/his/his/himself is used when talking about men and boys | |||
* She/her/her/hers/herself is used when talking about girls and women | |||
* They/them/their/theirs/themselves or themself is used when talking about a hypothetical person or an individual of unknown gender | |||
Use of singular they among nonbinary people for people of known nonbinary gender is increasingly common, and is somewhat supported by the Associated Press Stylebook.<ref name="APstyle">''[http://mxactivist.tumblr.com/post/158812452855 Associated Press Stylebook now accepts use of singular they for nonbinary people]'', MxActivist, March 2017.</ref> | |||
==Non-binary people's pronouns== | ==Non-binary people's pronouns== | ||