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The Uses of One

As a determiner, the word one is sometimes used before a proper noun to designate, particularly, this person: "He delivered the package to one Ronald Pepin of Colchester." The article "a" will also function in that position for the same purpose.

Sometimes we use the word one as an adjective, as in "I'll have just one scoop of ice-cream," and we seldom have trouble with that usage.

But we also use one as a pronoun, and this is where one becomes surprisingly complex.

Sometimes the pronoun one functions as a numerical expression:

• Those are lovely scarves. I think I'll buy one.

• One is hardly enough.
  One and ones examples

• One is purple, the other green.
• The three brothers get along quite well; in fact they adore one another.
• One of the senators will lead the group to the front of the capitol.
• The yellow car is fast, but I think the blue one will win.

As a pronoun, one can also function in an impersonal, objective manner, standing for the writer or for all people who are like the writer or for the average person or for all people who belong to a

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