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FRANKLY SPEAKING Posted 20 years ago
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Angels - How should we use the pronouns ?

The English language unfortunately lacks a simple singular pronoun which does not specify gender, That's why i would to ask the Experts here in this Forum about this debatable question " The possessive and objective pronoun of Angel ".

If i want to write a text as the following one :

" I dreamt about angels last night , They were more than 5 angels flying in the Sky tending towards me , one of them was so big with wings on his\her\its shoulders , when i saw and hear him\her\it calling me by my name .... i woke up immediatly scared "

Any pronoun should i choose?
  

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Hi, The English language unfortunately lacks a simple singular pronoun which does not specify gender, That's why i would to ask the Experts here in this Forum about this debatable question " The possessive and objective pronoun of Angel ". If i want to write a text as the following one : " I dreamt about angels last night , The re were more than 5 angels flying in the Sky tending towards me , one of them was so big with wings on his \ her \ its shoulders , when i saw and hear him \ her \ it calling me by my name .... i woke up immediatly scared " Any pronoun should i choose?

— Clive

  • Hi, The English language unfortunately lacks a simple singular pronoun which does not specify gender, That's why i would to ask the Experts here in this Forum about this debatable question " The possessive and objective pronoun of Angel ".
  • If i want to write a text as the following one : " I dreamt about angels last night , The re were more than 5 angels flying in the Sky tending towards me , one of them was so big with wings on his \ her \ its shoulders , when i saw and hear him \ her \ it calling me by my name ....
  • i woke up immediatly scared " Any pronoun should i choose?
  • I would use its/it .
  • Angels are not people.
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Hi,

The English language unfortunately lacks a simple singular pronoun which does not specify gender, That's why i would to ask the Experts here in this Forum about this debatable question " The possessive and objective pronoun of Angel ".

If i want to write a text as the following one :

" I dreamt about angels l
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Well, what *** were the angels you saw? The Bible seems to use 'he' exclusively, according to a browse through my concordance.
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Mr.Clive said : Are you even sure that angels have two different sexes?

Mister Micawber said : Well, what *** were the angels you saw?

what i want to know is what is the used pronoun with " Angel " , it's needless to say that Angels haven't two different sexes,

But if we used " it " as a pronoun with angel , we considered angels as a third-pe
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He, She, and It are ALL third-person pronouns.

If the angel was male (if there are male and female angels), then use he.
If the angel was female, then use she.
If the angel had no gender, then use it.

The lack of the third-person, singular is hard when you know it was a person, but not which person, and therefore don't know which
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As mentioned in the previous answers, there seems to be no definite pronoun for 'angels'. However, it's always better to use "it", the second best choice being "he".

Hope it was helpful

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