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Seagull Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

as long as she/it is a woman

a. I really want a girlfriend. Honestly, I don't care who it is as long as she is a woman.

b. I really want a girlfriend. Honestly, I don't care who it is as long as it is a woman.

If an obsessed guy said something like this, which would be more natural? And besides, is there any more natural-sounding expression than these?
  

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Hi, I have no comments on the meaning of your sentences as both are very odd to me. Grammatically speaking, if you are specifying the gender in your sentence, the subject pronoun has to be "it". Ex.

— Hrsanei

  • Hi, I have no comments on the meaning of your sentences as both are very odd to me.
  • Grammatically speaking, if you are specifying the gender in your sentence, the subject pronoun has to be "it".
  • Ex.
  • It is a she/he.
  • Hamid
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Hi,
I have no comments on the meaning of your sentences as both are very odd to me. Grammatically speaking, if you are specifying the gender in your sentence, the subject pronoun has to be "it".

Ex. It is a she/he.

Hamid
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Thank you very much indeed, Hamid.
I'm sorry for my weird question.
I wanted to know this because English pronouns are very tricky for me in some cases. This happned to be one of those cases.
Thanks again.
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