TAILIEUCHUNG - Vocabulary general 6

Tham khảo tài liệu 'vocabulary general 6', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | they their singular THEY THEIR SINGULAR Using the plural pronoun to refer to a single person of unspecified gender is an old and honorable pattern in English not a newfangled bit of degeneracy or a politically correct plot to avoid sexism though it often serves the latter purpose . People who insist that Everyone has brought his own lunch is the only correct form do not reflect the usage of centuries of fine writers. A good general rule is that only when the singular noun does not specify an individual can it be replaced plausibly with a plural pronoun Everybody is a good example. We know that everybody is singular because we say everybody is here not everybody are here yet we tend to think of everybody as a group of individuals so we usually say everybody brought their own grievances to the bargaining table. Anybody is treated similarly. However in many written sentences the use of singular their and they creates an irritating clash even when it passes unnoticed in speech. It is wise to shun this popular pattern in formal writing. Often expressions can be pluralized to make the they or their indisputably proper All of them have brought their own lunches. People can often be substituted for each. Americans seldom avail themselves of the otherwise very handy British one to avoid specifying gender because it sounds to our ears rather pretentious One s hound should retrieve only one s own grouse. If you decide to try one don t switch to they in mid-sentence One has to be careful about how they speak sounds absurd because the word one so emphatically calls attention to its singleness. The British also quite sensibly treat collective bodies like governmental units and corporations as plural Parliament have approved their agenda whereas Americans insist on treating them as singular. List of errors file C Temp livres commonerrors errors 09 2005 15 40 10 think on THINK ON THINK ABOUT An archaic form that persists in some dialects is seen in statements like I ll

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