Inglise keele stilistika
words, in fact.
Third person singular he/she may be used in personification (The moon smiled her faint
smile.). It, when used about people, turns them into a class of objects. The result is usually
irony, humor, contempt or negative attitude.
e.g The woman went a longer road. Then it (ought to be she) stopped and grinned.
The pronoun ,,we", according to the english norm, may imply only the speaker. We have 2
kinds of uses:
1 The Majestic Plural (kings, queens, manifestos)
2 The Modest Plural (author, speaker writes we out of modesty, as if in involving the
audience as well). E.g Lost time we were discussing. The Modest Plural in prose evokes or
creates association with scientific prose and creates the true to life effect. E.g Walter
Scott, in historical novels used we. The reader, feeling his dealing with popular science
literature.
The pronoun ,,they" becomes emotional when used independently. E.g R.Kipling: ,,All the