An impersonal pronoun does not refer to a specific person or thing. These pronouns help us talk about a thing or person without mentioning what or who.

Pronouns are an essential part of how we talk about people and things. They help us to refer to people and objects without repeating their names.

Pronouns

Pronouns in English Grammar

This comprehensive lesson dives into Impersonal Pronouns in English, featuring detailed examples and a quiz to test your knowledge.

"Impersonal Pronouns" in English Grammar

This lesson covers Impersonal Pronouns with clear explanations and practical examples to help reinforce understanding.

What Are "Impersonal Pronouns" in English Grammar?

Impersonal Pronouns

Repeating nouns while talking makes the conversation boring. This is why learning pronouns can be helpful. Let us learn more about this type of words.

What are "Pronouns" in the English Grammar?

A personal pronoun is a word that substitutes a name to avoid repetition. Personal pronouns show us the grammatical person and gender of the name they refer to.

Personal Pronouns

"Personal Pronouns" in the English Grammar

Pronouns that are used in the position of a subject in sentences are called subject pronouns. In this article, you find all your answers about subject pronouns.

Subject Pronouns

Subject Pronouns in the English Grammar

Pronouns that can take the place of an object are called object pronouns. In this article, you will get to know different kinds of object pronouns.

Object Pronouns

Object Pronouns in the English Grammar

Reflexive Pronouns are used to show that the subject and object of a sentence are exactly the same person or thing or there is a direct connection between them.

Reflexive Pronouns

Reflexive Pronouns in English Grammar

A demonstrative pronoun is a pronoun mostly used to point to something based on its distance from the speaker. In English, these pronouns have four forms.

Demonstrative Pronouns

Demonstrative Pronouns in English Grammar

'Emphatic pronouns' are used to refer to a noun or a pronoun mentioned earlier. So they give more detailed information.

Emphatic Pronouns

"Emphatic Pronouns" in the English Grammar

There are five interrogative pronouns in English. Each is used to ask a specific question. In this lesson, we will learn more about these pronouns.

Interrogative Pronouns

Interrogative Pronouns in English Grammar

Possessive pronouns show ownership and indicate that something belongs to someone particular. With their help, we can make a possessive phrase shorter.

Possessive Pronouns

"Possessive Pronouns" in English Grammar

Indefinite pronouns refer to people or things without saying exactly who or what they are. In this lesson, we will learn more about these pronouns.

Indefinite Pronouns

"Indefinite Pronouns" in English Grammar

Dummy pronouns function grammatically the same as other pronouns, except they do not refer to a person or thing like normal pronouns do.

Dummy Pronouns

"Dummy Pronouns" in English Grammar

When two or more people are doing the same thing and receiving the consequences of that action at the same time we use reciprocal pronouns.

Reciprocal Pronouns

"Reciprocal Pronouns" in English Grammar

Relative pronouns are matchmakers of English grammar. They come in the beginning of relative clauses and join two clauses together. Ready to learn about them?

Relative Pronouns

"Relative Pronouns" in English Grammar

Nominal relative pronouns are also known as free relative pronouns are used to introduce a relative clause.

Nominal Relative Pronouns

Nominal Relative Pronouns in the English Grammar

Although we don't use 'archaic' or old pronouns today, but if you're a fan of works of Shakespeare, or other classic works you need to learn about them.

Archaic Pronouns

"Archaic Pronouns" in English Grammar

Distributive pronouns refer to nouns separately rather than collectively in a group. In this lesson, we will learn all about them.

Distributive Pronouns

What Are Distributive Pronouns?

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What Are Impersonal Pronouns?

**Impersonal pronouns**  are used to refer to people in general, __without__ specifying their identity or identifying them.

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English Impersonal Pronouns

There are **three** impersonal pronouns in English:

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'One' is used to talk about people **in general** or about **unidentified/unknown** things.

**'One'** is used for *singular* [nouns ](https://langeek.co/en/grammar/course/494/nouns) while for *plural* nouns **'ones'** is used:

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When Do We Use 'One'?

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When 'you' is used to refer to people **in general** in **informal** contexts, it is called **'impersonal you'** or **'generic you.'** It refers to anyone or everyone. In these cases, 'you' has the same meaning as 'people':

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They

'They' is used to talk about a group of people, such as an authority, an institution, a company, etc. In these sentences, 'they' refers to people in general.

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When we do __not__ want to mention the **gender** of a person, we use the third-person plural pronoun 'they'. It is called **singular they**.

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