they
1.不可用they，them，their等指anybody，everybody等词，参见anybody 3，everybody 3，nobody 2和one 7 (2)
2.参见company 2和party 1。用army，cabinet，committee，crowd，family，fleet，government，ministry，navy，public等词都该注意避免同样的错误。
3.they有时指“一般人”或“某人”。例如：They say she is a poet. 和They tell all sorts of stories about his eccentric ways. 有谚语说：They say so, is half a lie. （传闻多失实。）
下面两句里的they的用法不算正当：
- I went into a shop where they sold toys. （最好把they sold toys改作toys were sold）
- When I made inquiries at the counter, they told me that they knew
- nothing about it. （最好把they told me that they knew nothing about it改作I was told that I could learn nothing about it there）
4.they who...（那…的人们）和they that...远不及those who...或people who...普通。谚语里往往用。例如：
- They laugh best that (或who) laugh last. （事尚未定，且慢得意。）
- They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat. （少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。）
