4. We
It is used to talk about people in general,
both including the speaker and the
reader:
We never know what is going to
happen.
Formal or informal?
5. They
It is used to talk about people in general,
usually people in authority:
6. They, them, their
They can be used to refer to one person
who may be male or female, instead of
using he or she, his or her, etc.
Everyone should know what they are
doing.
7. Reflexive pronouns
We don’t use reflexive pronouns with
verbs like wash, shave, feel, relax,
concentrate, etc.
I don’t feel ok today.
8. Reflexive pronouns
We use them when the subject and object
of the sentence are the same:
I was talking to myself.
He bought it for himself.
9. Reflexive pronouns
But we don’t use them after prepositions
of place:
We found everything behind
ourselves.
We found everything behind us.
10. Reflexive pronouns
We can use them to emphasize
the subject:
Even though she’s just 13, she
prepared dinner herself.
11. By + Reflexive pronouns
They are used to mean alone, on
your own:
They are staying out by
themselves.
The child should be able to write
his name by himself.
12. Reciprocal pronouns
We use one each other or one another for
reciprocal actions: A does the action to B,
and B to A.
They’ve known each other for ages.
They’ve known one another for ages.
13. Structures with it
It + be: It is used to talk about the time,
weather, temperature and distance:
It is five past ten.
14. Structures with it
It + be + adjective: It is like a
‘preparatory’ subject before adjectives:
It was great seeing you there.
It is probable that you find him there.
15. Structures with it
We don’t use it to talk about if people
or things exist, we use there be
instead:
There used to be a cinema here.
There is no police station in my
town.
