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 INDEFINITE PRONOUN «ONE» - English_for_Finance_and_Banking - Studbook

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INDEFINITE PRONOUN «ONE»

 

Examples

Functions

One should always be polite.

How does one get to 5th Avenue from here?

One must keep one’s word.

            One means any person, people in general.

The subject of an impersonal sentence. (usually not translated)

This book is more interesting than the one we read lat week.

Here are two books. Which one would you like?

Any function for replacing a noun already mentioned.

 

 

One should take care of one’s health.

One should take care of his health.

One should take care of his or her health.

Notice the pronouns that may be used in the same sentence to refer back to one.

 

 

 

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