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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

They

If you ask someone what they are on about, you are asking that person what they mean.

Is they singular in the above?
  

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Anonymous Is they singular in the above? Excellent question. Practically speaking, yes, though grammarians may waffle about it.

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous Is they singular in the above?
  • Excellent question.
  • Practically speaking, yes, though grammarians may waffle about it.
  • It is the second definition in Oxford: [singular] Used to refer to a person of unspecified gender.
  • ‘ask someone if they could help’
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AnonymousIs they singular in the above?
Excellent question. Practically speaking, yes, though grammarians may waffle about it. It is the second definition in Oxford:

[singular] Used to refer to a person of unspecified gender.

‘ask someone if they could help’
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Thank you, MM, for the reply.
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