Impessoal language
Good evening.
As I was watching a lecture, I heard a sentence similar to this one:
"It is the driver's responsibility to keep his or her car documents within the vehicle..."
Is it possible to express this impersonal idea of possession, or any impersonal idea, without having to use both pronouns in a sentence?
As a native portuguese speaker, I've always been used to employing the masculine possessive to express this generic idea of impersonality,as it can be seen in:
"It is the driver's responsibility to keep his car documents within the vehicle..."
Is the first usage just a matter of general equality or is it really a characteristic of the language?
I already thank you for your help!
Top answer
The easiest and best solution is to make such statements using the plural. It is the drivers' responsibility to keep their car documents within the...
- The easiest and best solution is to make such statements using the plural.
- It is the drivers' responsibility to keep their car documents within the...
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The easiest and best solution is to make such statements using the plural.
It is the drivers' responsibility to keep their car documents within the...
0Pedro Henrique Dias OliveiraImpessoal ???
You must be a speaker of Portuguese.
impersonal
CJ
0Pedro Henrique Dias OliveiraIs the first usage just a matter of general equality or is it really a characteristic of the language?
It's just a wordy version. It would be simpler and more natural to use the wording in Englishmaven's reply.
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