What is the subject in this sentence, please
Please tell me what the subject is in the following sentence?
-Each of them has their own car.
Is the subject just each or is the whole part Each of them? Does the word each act as a noun here?
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"each of them" is a noun phrase in which "each" is the head noun/pronoun ("Each has their own car" is also possible) and "of them" modifies "each". Singular "their" is jarring for me in careful writing, though this kind of usage is very common in everyday English.
- "each of them" is a noun phrase in which "each" is the head noun/pronoun ("Each has their own car" is also possible) and "of them" modifies "each".
- Singular "their" is jarring for me in careful writing, though this kind of usage is very common in everyday English.
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"each of them" is a noun phrase in which "each" is the head noun/pronoun ("Each has their own car" is also possible) and "of them" modifies "each".
Singular "their" is jarring for me in careful writing, though this kind of usage is very common in everyday English.
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