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Brunces Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Possessive adjectives and pronouns, object pronouns for words such as "person, one, who"
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00 Please, when I use words such as "person, one, who" in a sentence - without knowing if it's a man or a woman - and I need to use a possessive adjective or pronoun, or an object pronoun, which should I use? 02 br
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00 - The one who had lost (his, her or its?) identification card, couldn't come in. 02 br
00 - Each person should take (his, her or its?) equipment to the bus. 02 br
00 - We don't know the person, but we shall wait for (him, her or it?), wearing white shirts and holding daisies in our hands. 02 br
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00 Thanks for your attention. 05 0 02 br
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00 Please, when I use words such as "person, one, who" in a sentence - without knowing if it's a man or a woman - and I need to use a possessive adjective or pronoun, or an object pronoun, which should I use? 02 br
00 Examples: 02 br
00 - The one who had lost (his, her or its?) identification card, couldn't come in. 02 br
00 - Each person should take (his, her or its?) equipment to the bus. 02 br
00 - We don't know the person, but we shall wait for (him, her or it?), wearing white shirts and holding daisies in our hands. 02 br
02 br
00 Thanks for your attention. 05 0 02 br
00 brunces 010id 1
Top answer
02 br 02 br 00 Traditionally, if the gender was unknown, the masculine pronoun would be used. " Today this would still be considered grammatically correct, but might be considered 01 i 00 socially 02 i 00 incorrect. 02 br 02 br 00 We would never use "it" for a person.
- 02 br 02 br 00 Traditionally, if the gender was unknown, the masculine pronoun would be used.
- " Today this would still be considered grammatically correct, but might be considered 01 i 00 socially 02 i 00 incorrect.
- 02 br 02 br 00 We would never use "it" for a person.
- 02 br 02 br 00 However, since our language has no pronoun for "a single person of unknown gender," people have begun to use "they, their, them" in situations like this.
- ) Technically it's not correct to use "they" for a single person, but its gender-neutral property is so useful that it is being used this way more and more.
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0 English really needs another pronoun for cases like this! 02 br
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00 Traditionally, if the gender was unknown, the masculine pronoun would be used. In a grammar book from 50 years ago, your examples would most certainly use "his." Today this would still be considered grammatically correct, but might be considered 01 i 00 socially 02 i 00 incorrect. These
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00 Traditionally, if the gender was unknown, the masculine pronoun would be used. In a grammar book from 50 years ago, your examples would most certainly use "his." Today this would still be considered grammatically correct, but might be considered 01 i 00 socially 02 i 00 incorrect. These
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10 Please, when I use words such as "person, one, who" in a sentence - without knowing if it's a man or a woman - and I need to use a possessive adjective or pronoun, or an object pronoun, which should I use? 12 br
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0 OK. Very nice! Thank you very much for your explanations, guys. 05 0 02 br
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