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Pronouns refer back to some previous noun phrase. Saying “she is coming over to my house later” would also be a weird and confusing thing to say without first establishing who you are talking about.

In technical writing you might say something like “The user will enter their password…”, where the pronoun “their” of course refers back to “the user”.



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