At 11:19 -0500 on 06/11/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: OT STCK question:
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:47:39 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote:
I use they all the time as the genderless pronoun. A supervisor
suggested he, I changed it to (s)he.
Of course, like all pronouns, it should assimilate its number, singular,
from its antecedent. A form both politically and gramatically correct is:
Everyone thinks they is being politically correct.
Shouldn't that be "Everyone thinks they ARE being politically correct"?
Everyone and they (?) are plural while "is" is singular - Thus the
change to plural "are".
-- gil
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