Gender Pronouns: Using ‘THEY’, ‘THEIR’, and ‘THEM’ for a single person in English

Do you notice people sometimes use the plural pronouns THEY, THEM, and THEIR when talking about one person? In this lesson I’ll explain why this is done to avoid specifying male or female gender. I’ll give some example sentences to show how it works, and I’ll include a test that we can do together towards the end of the video. And there’s also a quiz for you to test your understanding.

1o/1o
Thanks a lot, Mrs.Gill for your very actual clarification why this is done to avoid specifying male or female gender. I mean using the plural pronouns THEY, THEM, and THEIR when talking about one person.

Jannyl

70/100
thank you

Mr.Tarma

Thanks Teacher Gill,this was very hopeful.i got 9/10 I believe if I continue practicing I will be there on top very soon.

Angella22

Thanks, Teacher Gill, this was very interesting. I only made 6/10, points. I’II continuous studying.

Julianamachado15

Thanks Gill. I got 10 correct out of 10.

kimurasan

Gill nice meeting you and I welcome you for the good work you have been doing. I would like to continue especially writing letters and emails. My English is not good and hoping you can be a good mentor for me. Thanks! Thanks!

Dornmarie Francis

It’s very wonderful

facely8899@gamil.com

Thank you, Gill!

Lalananana

If you use the word “it” instead of the word “they”, would it be very rude?

Bitaly

Hello – yes, “it” is rude when referring to a human person. This non-gendered pronoun is used mostly for objects, concepts and living creatures such as insects and animals.

Gill

Thank you I got 80/100

Emmanuel mweemba

Thank you for teaching us! Using pronouns when you don’t know the gender could be tricky, especially when your fisrt language is Spanish. In Spanish we don’t use pronouns in these cases because of the way we conjugate verbs… thank you.

Felix Brito

Thanks a lot Gill for this video. Very interesting topic about speak and grammar! Thanks.

Migk

Thank you for this nice class! It was informative for me and gave ne some new knowledge.

Rosewell

Really useful

drvenky

Hello,
I hope you all from the Eng Vid team are very well!
Please, in question number 9, couldn’t I have used ‘it’ referring to the film? Thank you for the classes, and I look forward to your reply. See you!

silvacesar

Thank you for this new knowledge teacher.

Scalhem7

Nice one!

BigMoses

Thank you so much!

Victoria GB

thanks

ali aqabi

thanks

DioniMora

At my first time I got 80/100 point. I think if I will put all of my energy staying concentrated here I can get 100/100

Walter Manuel Rafael

The quiz is tricky. My grade is not advanced, but this lesson is quite informative. Thank you very much.

norikenshi533

Firt class with you Teacher Gill, I like it. 8/10 I’ll be studying to improve.

Alexguz12

Absolutely amazing, thank you teacher Gill.

santos.langa

Dear Ms Gill, thank you for this lesson. I know, you are a just woman. But languages never develop as we like. Therefore I am afraid that in daily conversation this gender speech has no chance, perhaps a little more in writing.

Arminius

This quiz is tricky I got 8/10. But I should say that lesson was very helpful and important for me, definitely I recommend to watch the video. Thank you.

LevTetiana

Thank you Gill! good presentation! I learned a lot from this video. The theme should read what is a subject pronoun verses objective pronoun.very important subject in grammar

Mikesyndrom

Thanks Gill

filipe sebastiao

Gill! The last two I got wrong, you mentioned the gender! I did the opposite.

Mikesyndrom

Gender Pronouns: Using ‘THEY’, ‘THEIR’, and ‘THEM’ for a single person in English

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