Used to refer to that one previously mentioned Used of a nonhuman entity; an animate being whose sex is unspecified, unknown, or irrelevant; a group of objects or individuals; an action; or an abstraction, Used as an anticipatory subject to emphasize a term that is not itself a subject, The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, to an inanimate thing with no or unknown sex or gende, noun_ An animal that has been neutered