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Silak12 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
Someone singular or plural?
Hi, everyone.
I looked up a word in the dictionary and found that the pronoun(them) doesn't agree with it's antecedent(someone). Could you tell me why that is correct, because I have learnt in the grammar books that the indefinite pronoun (someone) is always singular.
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Like it or not, 'they/them/their' is an accepted pronoun of reference to singular undisclosed gender.
- Like it or not, 'they/them/their' is an accepted pronoun of reference to singular undisclosed gender.
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Like it or not, 'they/them/their' is an accepted pronoun of reference to singular undisclosed gender.
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