USING YOU AND ONE AS IMPERSONAL PRONOUNS
Most of the students generally ask what this one on Callan books is all about.
Hope this page can be of some help.
(a) One should always be polite.
(b) How does one get to 5th
Avenue from here?
In (a) and (b): one...
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USING YOU AND ONE AS IMPERSONAL PRONOUNS
Most of the students generally ask what this one on Callan books is all about.
Hope this page can be of some help.
(a) One should always be polite.
(b) How does one get to 5th
Avenue from here?
In (a) and (b): one means "any person, people in general.
"
In (c) and (d): you means “any person people in general.
"
One is more formal than you.
Impersonal you, rather than one,
is used more frequently in everyday English.
(c) You should always be polite.
(d) How do you get to the 5th
Avenue from here?
(e) One should take care of one’s health
One should take care of his health
One should take care of his or her health
In (e): Notice the pronouns that may be used in the
same sentence to refer back to one
All the following have errors.
Make the pronoun usage in the following consistent and correct.
1.
One should always try to be friendly to your neighbours.
One should always try to be friendly to one’s neighbours (OR his or her neighbours).
You
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