What are we going to do about irksome sentences like these that pair a singular pronoun with a plural pronoun? Everyone proposes their/his/her/his or her own solution, but each pitch has a hitch ...

People have invented more than 200 gender-neutral pronouns, ... have considered singular they unfit for print, holding fast to the rule that educated people use they only as a plural and, ...

Special Singular Antecedents: Each of these constructions is considered singular. Any pronoun that refers to them must be singular. Note: Use of the plural pronouns "they"/"them"/"their" is now widely ...

We're used to the second-person pronoun being "you" (both singular and plural); in archaic works, we see "thou/thee," and I'm told some Quakers still use ...

Plural nouns are represented by plural pronouns: The cats know they can catch their tails. But agreement isn’t always easy. Here are some difficult agreement problems and how to navigate them.

Pronouns may be little, but they say a lot, and they're always changing! Skip to Main Content. ... Now you may have noticed that "they" is both singular and plural in our chart here.

And, when we look at the record, we discover the pronoun “they” has been used as a singular generic pronoun, alongside its plural uses, for hundreds of years.

I love the Swedish introduction of the gender-neutral “hen” and would embrace a new English language gender-neutral pronoun, in both its singular and plural forms. Terry Kleinberg New York.

According to standard grammar, “they” and its related forms can only agree with plural antecedents. But English sorely lacks a gender-neutral singular third-person pronoun, ...