What part of speech is they?

They can be categorized as a noun and a pronoun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. they is a pronoun, specifically Personal / Subject.
  • 2. they is a noun, singular of theys / theyes.

Inflections

Noun

Examples of they

#   Sentence  
1. pron. DPA: Iraqi authorities announced that they had busted up 3 terrorist cells operating in Baghdad.
2. pron. On Wednesday guerrillas had kidnapped a cosmetic surgeon and his wife while they were on their way home.
3. pron. In Suwayrah, Kut Province, two car bombs were discovered before they could be detonated.
4. pron. They also killed Shaikh Hamid 'Akkab, a clan elder of a branch of the Dulaim tribe in Tikrit.
5. pron. If he or she did not, then they should have all the same rights as other Iraqis.
6. pron. Fedayeen are now visible on the street and they have become bolder than ever.
7. pron. Yesterday there were tens of them putting road blocks on our street and setting up mortars, they only come out in the open when Americans leave the area, then they start firing mortars indiscriminately and shooting their AK-47's in the air.
8. pron. They are setting the road blocks at the exact same positions they were during the war last year, which indicates they are the same people.
9. pron. What irritates me is this sudden false 'solidarity' between Sunni and Shi'ite clerics, we all know that they would be glad to get at each others throats when they have the chance, and Shia clerics were describing Fallujan insurgents as 'Ba'athists', 'Saddamites', 'Wahhabis', and 'terrorists' just a few days ago.
10. pron. They have sent over their top reporter Ahmed Mansour to the town, and he is spouting all kinds of propaganda hourly reminding me of Al-Sahhaf.
11. pron. "They are targetting ambulances", "American snipers are shooting children and pregnant women", and "They are using cluster bombs against civilians" is all you get to hear from him.
12. pron. He added that "America does not understand anything except the language of force and retaliation, they were kicked out of Somalia in humiliation after that soldier was dragged in Mogadishu for the whole world to see", and that "the day will come when the dead bodies of Americans and Jews would be dragged, defiled, and stepped on in the Arabian peninsula together with their agents and supporters".
13. pron. As a child in the 50's I had a lot of glandular problems and they treated it with radiation therapy (primitive at best!) and stopped when a lesion on my neck started enlarging--they said it was not CA but stopped the treatments....
14. pron. If al-Qaeda can kill Musharraf or instigate a military coup against him by Islamist junior officers, they can hope to catapult the MMA to power as political allies and hosts.
15. pron. They would thereby gain control of a major base for terrorist operations, which is also a nuclear power.
Sentence  
pron.
DPA: Iraqi authorities announced that they had busted up 3 terrorist cells operating in Baghdad.
On Wednesday guerrillas had kidnapped a cosmetic surgeon and his wife while they were on their way home.
In Suwayrah, Kut Province, two car bombs were discovered before they could be detonated.
They also killed Shaikh Hamid 'Akkab, a clan elder of a branch of the Dulaim tribe in Tikrit.
If he or she did not, then they should have all the same rights as other Iraqis.
Fedayeen are now visible on the street and they have become bolder than ever.
Yesterday there were tens of them putting road blocks on our street and setting up mortars, they only come out in the open when Americans leave the area, then they start firing mortars indiscriminately and shooting their AK-47's in the air.
They are setting the road blocks at the exact same positions they were during the war last year, which indicates they are the same people.
What irritates me is this sudden false 'solidarity' between Sunni and Shi'ite clerics, we all know that they would be glad to get at each others throats when they have the chance, and Shia clerics were describing Fallujan insurgents as 'Ba'athists', 'Saddamites', 'Wahhabis', and 'terrorists' just a few days ago.
They have sent over their top reporter Ahmed Mansour to the town, and he is spouting all kinds of propaganda hourly reminding me of Al-Sahhaf.
"They are targetting ambulances", "American snipers are shooting children and pregnant women", and "They are using cluster bombs against civilians" is all you get to hear from him.
He added that "America does not understand anything except the language of force and retaliation, they were kicked out of Somalia in humiliation after that soldier was dragged in Mogadishu for the whole world to see", and that "the day will come when the dead bodies of Americans and Jews would be dragged, defiled, and stepped on in the Arabian peninsula together with their agents and supporters".
As a child in the 50's I had a lot of glandular problems and they treated it with radiation therapy (primitive at best!) and stopped when a lesion on my neck started enlarging--they said it was not CA but stopped the treatments....
If al-Qaeda can kill Musharraf or instigate a military coup against him by Islamist junior officers, they can hope to catapult the MMA to power as political allies and hosts.
They would thereby gain control of a major base for terrorist operations, which is also a nuclear power.

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