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The word "they" is a personal pronoun, a word that takes the place of a noun for people or things.

The word or words that a pronoun replaces is called its antecedent.

Another word for "they" is the noun, nouns, or pronoun that it is replacing.

The pronoun "they" is a plural pronoun that functions as the subject of a sentence or a clause.

Examples:

The sisters proudly served the dinner that they had prepared.

  • The pronoun "they" replaces the noun "sisters" as the subject of the relative clause.

Branches and twigs littered the lawn. They were deposited by the storm.

  • The pronoun "they" replaces the nouns "branches and twigs" as the subject of the second sentence.

They are the new neighbors.

  • The pronoun "they" takes the place of the noun "neighbors" as the subject of the sentence.

The other pronouns that can take the place of the personal pronoun "they" are:

  • them, a personal pronoun that takes the place of a noun, nouns, or pronoun as the object of a verb or a preposition;
  • theirs, a possessive pronoun that takes the place of a noun belonging to two or more people or things;
  • their, a possessive adjective that takes the place of a possessive noun;
  • themselves, a reflexive pronoun that takes the place of a noun, nouns, or pronoun to reflect back to the noun it replaces;
  • these, a demonstrative pronoun that takes the place of a noun, nouns, or pronoun for specific people or things indicated near in place or time;
  • those, a demonstrative pronoun that takes the place of a noun, nouns, or pronoun for specific people or things indicated far in place or time.
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10y ago

The word they're is a contraction for the words they are.

A synonym means two different words that have the same meaning.

There are no synonyms for they're.

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he, she or it.

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