one (pronoun) – English Grammar Profiler

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This post lists two clashing points in the English Grammar Profile. The only difference that we can guess from the definition is that the B1 point does not require the subject position.

B2 point 91 in PRONOUNS is defined as:

‘ONE’ as a generic personal pronoun in the subject position to mean people in general.

B1 point 42 in PRONOUNS:

‘one’ to refer to people in general, in formal contexts.

Yet, the examples for the B1 point are all in the subject position:

The television, I think, is like a box where one can find anything: rubbish and good things.
One more reason I like Singapore is that one sees cats everywhere.

To make matters more confusing, the English Vocabulary Profile lists:

‘One’ C1 FORMAL any person in general

A search in iWeb corpus for . one_p _v we get the following:

1 . ONE IS 49191

2 . ONE CAN 32818

PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE:

One can see in this act

Maya Deren’s refusing sexual rules of western society,

but also, with the final death, see the symbolic passage from one life to another one.

French male level 4 writing class.

3 . ONE WAS 16024 4 . ONE COULD 11736 5 . ONE WOULD 9465 6 . ONE MIGHT 8549 7 . ONE HAS 7894 8 . ONE MUST 7231 9 . ONE SHOULD 6733 10 . ONE MAY 5396 11 . ONE DOES 3593

12 . ONE WILL 3063

14 . ONE HAD 2032 15 . ONE NEEDS 1989 16 . ONE SAID 1278 17 . ONE NEED 1262 18 . ONE CA 880 19 . ONE GETS 835 20 . ONE SAYS 797 21 . ONE BEING 726 22 . ONE HOPES 602 23 . ONE DID 473 24 . ONE SEES 458 25 . ONE FEELS 453 26 . ONE GOES 404