<Li> In Japan they work extremely hard, often sacrificing comfort for themselves and their families . </Li> <P> Other techniques that can be used to avoid the use of one, in contexts where it seems over-formal, include use of the passive voice, pluralizing the sentence (so as to talk about "people", for example), use of other indefinite pronouns such as someone or phrases like "a person" or "a man", and other forms of circumlocution . </P> <P> Occasionally, the pronoun one as considered here may be avoided so as to avoid ambiguity with other uses of the word one . For example, in the sentence If one enters two names, one will be rejected, the second one may refer either to the person entering the names, or to one of the names . </P>

Using one as a pronoun in an essay