One is a pronoun in the English language. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States It is a gender neutral, third-person singular (though slightly anomalous) pronoun, commonly used in English prose. Gender-neutral, gender-inclusive or epicene pronouns are Pronouns that neither reveal nor imply the Gender or sex of a person It is equivalent to the French pronoun on (upon which it may be modeled), or the German man, or the Spanish 'uno'. The French Personal pronouns (analogous to English I, me, you, and so on reflect the person and number of their referent and in the

Contents 1 Cases and usage 1.1 Nominative 1.2 Accusative 1.2.1 Verbal object 1.2.2 Prepositional object 1.3 Dative 1.4 Genitive 1.5 Reflexive 2 Style and rhetoric 3 Etymology 4 See also 5 References

Cases and usage

One may be used in the nominative, but (much unlike French on and German man) it can also be used in other cases. The nominative case is a Grammatical case for a Noun, which generally marks the subject of a Verb, as opposed to its object or other It occurs most commonly in sentences in the present simple tense or conditional constructions. Present Tense is the first Sagittarius album released in 1968 by Columbia Records. The conditional mood is the form of the verb used in Conditional sentences to refer to a hypothetical state of affairs or an uncertain event that is contingent on another set Examples of its use:

Nominative

• One cannot help but grow older.
• If one were to fail, that would be unfortunate.

Accusative

Verbal object

• Drunkenness makes one unreliable.

Prepositional object

• A reputation travels with one.

Dative

• That dead-end job at least gives one a chance to develop as a person.

Genitive

The genitive form of one is one's, as in

• One's experiences shape one's expectations.

There is no strong form analogous to hers and yours: *One's is broken; *I sat on one's; *I broke one's.

Reflexive

A reflexive form oneself appears at times:

To quit smoking is like giving oneself a raise.

Oneself is anomalous in its inability to refer back to anything other than one:

• One exhausts oneself.
• * Smith exhausted oneself.

Style and rhetoric

Some consider one to be overly formal, and avoid it. However, in doing so, they encounter problems only resolvable by awkward phrasings or a significant drop in formality. In particular, phrasing a sentence in a gender neutral way may require the passive voice, singular they, pluralizing, you, or circumlocution. In Grammar, the voice (also called gender or diathesis of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state that the verb expresses and the participants identified "Singular" they is a popular non-technical expression for uses of the Pronoun they (and its inflected forms when plurality is not In addition, the word one can also be used for inanimate objects, creating possible confusion in careless writing. For example,

• If one chooses to disobey the rules, one must be dealt with.

The second one may co-refer with the first, or it may refer to a specific rule. (If this sentence were spoken at all, the second one would require distinctive intonation for the second interpretation. )

Etymology

One may have come into use as an imitation of French on. ^[1] French on derives from Latin homo, nominative singular for human. It is distinct from the French word for the English numeral one un(e), which never appears as a pronoun.

See also

• Generic antecedents
• Singular they
• Generic you

References

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