thim

Pronoun

them (third-person, personal pronoun, objective case of they)

1. (in plural, personal, pronoun, third-person) Used as the direct object of a verb.
   • She treated them for a cold.
2. (in plural, personal, pronoun, third-person) Used as the indirect object of a verb.
   • She wrote them a letter.
3. (in plural, personal, pronoun, third-person) Used as the object of a preposition.
   • Give it to them.
4. (colloquial, in plural, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, third-person) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
   • [...] and now them and the Goo Goo Dolls are playing together.
5. (in plural, personal, pronoun, third-person) Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
   • Who was there? —Them.
6. (personal, pronoun, singular, third-person, occasionally proscribed) Used as the direct object of a verb.
   • If a student has an inappropriate question, whatever you do, do not berate them.

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