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Samouse Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Use of pronoun
Could you explain me use of pronoun 'she' in texts like this:
'Odds are that the player who has strong feelings about historical accuracy - whether or not her own notions are accurate... and therefore she might be convinced and taken into the flow of the game...'
Similar use of pronouns I often see, when author means a general situation, without detalizing anything.
The question is, why in such language constructions feminine pronoun is always used?
'Odds are that the player who has strong feelings about historical accuracy - whether or not her own notions are accurate... and therefore she might be convinced and taken into the flow of the game...'
Similar use of pronouns I often see, when author means a general situation, without detalizing anything.
The question is, why in such language constructions feminine pronoun is always used?
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Hi, Could you explain me use of pronoun 'she' in texts like this: 'Odds are that the player who has strong feelings about historical accuracy - whether or not her own notions are accurate... ' Similar use of pronouns I often see, when author means a general situation, without detalizing anything. The question is, why in such language constructions feminine pronoun is always used?
- Hi, Could you explain me use of pronoun 'she' in texts like this: 'Odds are that the player who has strong feelings about historical accuracy - whether or not her own notions are accurate...
- ' Similar use of pronouns I often see, when author means a general situation, without detalizing anything.
- The question is, why in such language constructions feminine pronoun is always used?
- It's actually much, much more common for the masculine pronoun 'he' to be used when the meaning is 'both men and women' .
- Sometimes we say 'he or she', although this is cumbersome.
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Hi,
Could you explain me use of pronoun 'she' in texts like this:
'Odds are that the player who has strong feelings about historical accuracy - whether or not her own notions are accurate... and therefore she might be convinced and taken into the flow of the game...'
Similar use of pronouns I often see, when author means a general situation, without detali
Could you explain me use of pronoun 'she' in texts like this:
'Odds are that the player who has strong feelings about historical accuracy - whether or not her own notions are accurate... and therefore she might be convinced and taken into the flow of the game...'
Similar use of pronouns I often see, when author means a general situation, without detali
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In the late 70s and 80s, as a nod to the feminist movement, some writers of textbooks, instruction manuals, and the like started alternating "he" and "she" to avoid the old rule of always using he when the gender wasn't known. It also, as Clive mentioned, avoided the cumberson he/she his/her constructions. You may run across texts that do that. In one paragraph or page or section of instructio
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