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Online Writing Lab: Pronouns - Provides a description and list of the types of pronouns.
English Basics: Pronouns - Take the quiz and learn about pronouns.
Gender-Neutral Pronoun Frequently Asked Questions - A comprehensive discussion of gender-neutral/gender-free pronouns in English over the centuries, such as 'sie', 'hir', 'ey', 'zie', singular their, and many others.
OWL: Using Pronouns Clearly - Explains how to use a pronoun correctly in sentences.
Pronoun Reference - Examples and description of the pronoun.
Gender Fair Language - Jenny Redfern discusses how to minimize sexist language while neither violating English grammar nor using gender-neutral pronouns.
Some Notes on Gender-Neutral Language - Carolyn Jacobson, a Ph. D. candidate who studies Victorian English literature, provides this handout about the history of pronoun usage.
The History and Status of Singular Their (with Examples) - A discussion of the traditional and established use of "they/their" as indefinite genderless pronouns by Jane Austen and other well-known authors.
Viewpoints from Involvement -- "Thon" - The history and usage of "thon" as a genderless pronoun derived from "that one" is described.
Nouns and Pronouns - Provides information on concrete, abstract, common, proper, compound, and collective nouns. Also goes over types of pronouns.

Gender-neutral pronoun - Gender-neutral, gender-inclusive or epicene pronouns are pronouns that neither reveal nor imply the gender or the sex of a person. Androgynous pronouns are pronouns that can refer to neither or both genders.
Japanese pronouns - The concept of pronouns in the Japanese language is different than the Indo-European languages (and other families) concept. Japanese pronouns function as nouns for the purposes of sentence structure, grammar, and syntax.
French pronouns - French pronouns are inflected to indicate their role in the sentence (subject, direct object, and so on), as well as to reflect the person, gender, and number of their referents. While English draws some of these distinctions as well, French draws them in many places where English does not; as a result, there are many more pronouns in French than there are in English.
Portuguese personal pronouns - The Portuguese personal pronouns and possessives display a higher degree of inflection than other parts of speech. Personal pronouns have distinct forms according to whether they stand for a subject (nominative), a direct object (accusative), an indirect object (dative), or a reflexive object.
Combination of weak pronouns in Catalan - This diagram describing the combination of weak pronouns in Catalan provides further detail for the discussion of weak pronouns in the article Catalan grammar.