2021-03-20
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ออกเสียง We (editorial) = ‘WEE’
ออกเสียง us = ‘UHS’
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
Usage Note:
Appositive nouns
(A grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows)
or noun phrases
sometimes lead writers and speakers to choose incorrect pronoun forms.
Thus, us is frequently found in constructions
such as
Us owners will have something to say about the contract,
where we is required as the subject of the sentence.
Less frequently,
we is substituted in positions where us should be used,
as in
For we students, it's a no-win situation.
In all cases,
the function of the pronoun within the sentence
should determine its form,
whether or not it is followed by a noun or noun phrase.
See Usage Notes at be
Collins COBUILD English Usage
we
You use we to refer to yourself together with one or more other people.
We is the subject of a verb.
We could hear the birds singing.
We both sat down.
You can use we to include
the person or people you are speaking or writing to.
If you like, we could have dinner together.
Be Careful!
Don't say 'you and we' or 'we and you'.
Instead of saying 'You and we must go',
you say 'We must go'.
You can also use we to refer to
people in general, including yourself.
We need to stop polluting the planet.
Nowadays we like to think of ourselves as rational and scientific.
Collins COBUILD English Usage
us
Us can be the object of a verb or preposition.
You use us to refer to yourself and one or more other people.
Why didn't you tell us?
There wasn't room for us all.
Be Careful!
In standard English,
don't use 'us' as the object of a sentence when we is the subject.
Don't say, for example, 'We bought us some drinks'.
You say 'We bought ourselves some drinks'.
After the meeting we introduced ourselves.
Collins COBUILD English Usage
1. 'one'
One is sometimes an impersonal pronoun,
showing that something is generally done
or should generally be done.
One doesn't talk about politics at parties.
You can also use the possessive determiner one's
and the reflexive pronoun oneself.
Naturally, one wants only the best for one's children.
We all understood the fear of making a fool of oneself.
One, one's, and oneself are fairly formal.
Here are some other ways in which you can say that
something is generally done or should be done:
2. 'you'
You can use you, your, yours and yourself,
as we usually do in this book.
There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.
Ignoring your neighbours is rude.
3. 'we'
You can use we, us, our, ours, and ourselves
to say that something is generally done
by a group of people that includes yourself.
We say things in the heat of an argument that we don't really mean.
There are things we can all do to make ourselves and our children happier.
4. 'they'
They can sometimes mean people in general,
or a group of people whose identity is not actually stated.
They found the body in the river.
Some people use they when
they are mentioning a saying or repeating a piece of gossip.
They say that the camera never lies – but it doesn't always show the full picture.
He made a fortune, they say.
They, them, their, theirs, and themselves
are also used to refer to words
such as everyone and anyone, person, child, and student.
See he - she - they
5. 'people'
You can use people. This is also a fairly common use.
People shouldn't leave jobs unfinished.
I don't think people should make promises they don't mean to keep.
6. the passive
Instead of using one of these words and an active verb,
you can sometimes use a passive verb.
This is a fairly common use in formal writing.
If there is increasing pain, medical advice should be taken.
Bookings must be made before the end of December.
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions
We (editorial)
The plural pronoun we
is occasionally used by writers (especially newspaper writers)
as a substitute for a repetitive I.
It is a device, not a gesturetoward modesty,
so that when a columnist writes “We think,”he means “I think.”
The first-person personal pronoun can be overused and often is,
but many writers and readers consider
this conventional useof we both artificial and pretentious.
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions
We & us
These are first-person plural personal pronouns.
We is in the nominative (or subjective) case;
Us is in the objective (accusative) case.
Choice between them
depends upon the function each fulfills in a statement:
“We taxpayers are entitled to a referendum.”
“For us taxpayers the outlook is dubious.”
After as or than in a comparison in which
the first term is in the objective case, use us:
“The waiter gave them more food than us.”
Conversely, write “Those men are taller than we”
Because we is understood as the subject of the omitted verb are,
exactly as usin the immediately preceding sentence
is the objectof the omitted verb gave.
In additionto us and we,
there are five other regularly used personal pronouns
with nominative and objective cases:
I and me, he and him, she and her, they and them, who and whom.
These pronounsshould always be used
in their nominative (subjective) forms
except whenthey are
(1) the object of a verb,
(2) the object of a preposition, or
(3) and indirect object:
“I love her” “She loves me.” “He hates him.” “They have come.” “I saw them.” “Who is that?” “Whom did you see?” “I talked to her.” ”I gave him a hug.”
