![]() ![]() Because of these problems, the temptation may arise to switch to you, but this will undoubtedly be distracting to the reader. This has the drawback of raising the specter of gender bias. ![]() A traditional alternative has been to use he, him, and his: One tries to be careful about his investments. But in a sequence of sentences this inevitably becomes tedious. One option is to use one and one's repeatedly, as in One tries to be careful about where one invests one's money. Trouble arises when one is used in a series of sentences, and there is a need for a relative pronoun to refer back to one. ![]() The informal counterpart of one is you: You never know what to expect from her. Usage Note: In formal usage, the pronoun one is sometimes used as a generic pronoun meaning "anyone": One would hope that train service could be improved. ![]()
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