We vs. They

Check any text for mistakes in above text box. Use the Grammar Checker to check your text.

Grammarly Online - Best Grammar and Plagiarism Checker for Students, Teachers

Wepronoun

(personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). This is the exclusive we.

Wepronoun

(personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. This is the inclusive we.

Wepronoun

(personal) The speaker/writer alone. This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sense of we is ourself.

Wepronoun

(personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.

Wepronoun

A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care.

Wedeterminer

The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.

Wepronoun

The plural nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a person in speaking or writing denotes a number or company of which he is one, as the subject of an action expressed by a verb.

We

In Modern English, we is a plural, first-person pronoun.

Theypronoun

(the third-person plural) A group of people, animals, plants, or objects previously mentioned.

Theypronoun

A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender, but not if previously named and identified as male or female.

Theypronoun

(indefinite pronoun, vague meaning) People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker.

Theypronoun

There especially as an expletive subject of be.

Theydeterminer

The, those.

Theydeterminer

Their.

They

The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed.

Theypronoun

used to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily identified

Theypronoun

people in general

Theypronoun

people in authority regarded collectively

Theypronoun

used to refer to a person of unspecified gender

They

In Modern English, they is a third-person pronoun.

More relevant Comparisons