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Soufan Posted 12 years ago
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Their
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I learned that Their is used for plural. When I was browsing a website, I saw this sentence: This user has deactivated their account. Why their? Why not This user has deactivated his account? We're talking about one user, not users.
I learned that Their is used for plural. When I was browsing a website, I saw this sentence: This user has deactivated their account. Why their? Why not This user has deactivated his account? We're talking about one user, not users.
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Soufan I saw this sentence: This user has deactivated their account. Why their? Why not This user has deactivated his account?
- Soufan I saw this sentence: This user has deactivated their account.
- Why their?
- Why not This user has deactivated his account?
- 'Their, they, them' are more and more acceptable as 3rd person singular personal pronomials of unknown ***.
- They have been in the spoken language as such for centuries.
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Soufan I saw this sentence: This user has deactivated their account. Why their? Why not This user has deactivated his account?'Their, they, them' are more and more acceptable as 3rd person singular personal pronomials of unknown ***. They have been in the spoken language as such for centuries.
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