Who vs She - What's the difference?
who | she |
(interrogative pronoun) What person or people; which person or people (used in a direct or indirect question).
(relative pronoun) The person or people that.
A person under discussion; a question of which person.
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(personal) A female person or animal.
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A ship.
(personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car.
(personal, nonstandard) .
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A female.
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English
Pronoun
- Who is that? (direct question)
- I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
- It was a nice man who helped us.
Usage notes
When "who" (or the other relative pronouns "that" and "which") is used as the subject of a relative clause, the verb agrees with the antecedent of the pronoun. Thus "I who am...", "He who is...", "You who are...", etc.Noun
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(wikipedia she)Pronoun
- Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall [...].
- I asked Mary, but she''' said that '''she didn't know.
- She could do forty knots in good weather.
- She''' is a beautiful boat, isn't '''she ?
- She''' only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but '''she' s durable.
- Optimal experience is thus something that we make'' happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she''' has built, higher than any ' she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage.
See also
(English personal pronouns)Noun
(en noun)- Pat is definitely a she .
- And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare.
- A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.