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39 questions linked to/from Is it correct to use "their" instead of "his or her"?
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Should I use "his/her" or "its"? [duplicate]
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Gender neutral pronoun
Is it correct to use “their” instead of “his or her”?
I am writing software documentation. I have this issue: I am talking ...
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Can "a person" be used as plural? [duplicate]
Is it acceptable to write: A person can develop their talent. or a person can develop their uniqueness?
In this case the person is used as a general term, not a specific person.
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Avoiding his/her in technical writing [duplicate]
I need to refer to a user of a certain service and would like to avoid a perticular gender such as his/her and not use one either.
Could I say "The user attempts to maximize own capacity.", instead of ...
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Anyone: ("they" or "he/she") why is it sometimes plural? [duplicate]
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Is it correct to use “their” instead of “his or her”?
Plural versus singular:
Anyone can learn to dance if they want to.
Anyone can learn to dance if he or she wants to.
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is it compulsory to use "his/her" and "he/she" to refer to a person or just "he" and "his" is enough? [duplicate]
Let see this sentence:
a person needs to change his / her mind so that he /she can become good.
or a person needs to change his mind so that he can become good
is the second one incorrect?
I've ...
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it's vs their (country) [duplicate]
What is correct?
Australia constantly improves its roads.
Australia constantly improve their roads.
Australia constantly improves their roads.
Thank you!
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Everybody has to obey their own parents [duplicate]
I am new here and I don't really know how to post, so please forgive my mistakes.
My question is this:
Is a sentence like "everybody has to obey their own parents" nowadays completely acceptable under ...
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If you can't use “he”, “she” or “they” in a sentence, what do you use? [duplicate]
I was waiting for a plane to take off last week, when we had to taxi back to the terminal building to disembark a sick passenger. We weren't told whether the passenger was male or female.
I was ...
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it's/his/her vs. their in singular [duplicate]
An expression below embarrasses me. Why not "it's" but "their" litter?
a cat can use their litter box.
in the context we are talking about a few cats, but in this, specific, example we speak ...
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The use of "Their" [duplicate]
I saw on facebook recently where its states and individuals birthday for all to see and comment the use of "their", which seemed inappropriate to me. Upon further investigation on my singular male ...
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Use of they as singular [duplicate]
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Is it correct to use “their” instead of “his or her”?
I, and many people I have heard, occasionally use 'they' and 'their' in the singular when gender ...
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How can this sentence be corrected to be more concise and grammatically correct? [duplicate]
Is the following sentence grammatically incorrect because the word "they" is plural when there is only one teacher? How can it be corrected?
Thomas may be afraid to speak to the teacher as he feels ...
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Use of "a user" as the antedecent of "they" [duplicate]
Is it correct to say "The list of reports a user will see may depend on the permissions group(s) they are in."?
I have asked the writer to change the text to say "users" to match "they", but he is ...
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How should I transform "Jane has just broken her leg" into a question starting with "Who" and whose answer is "Jane"? [duplicate]
How should I transform this sentence into a question?
Jane has just broken her leg.
How do I form a question from that sentence so that it starts with who and whose answer is Jane?
Q: Who__________?...
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how to ignore gender nicely in english? can i make the sentence plural? [duplicate]
why is this possible to replace:
someone removed his/her with someone removed their
can I also change:
The user clicks on the button. He/She then sees.. with
The user clicks on the button. They ...
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