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How do you choose between his or her in this case?
by minz 9y ago
How do you choose between his or her in this case?
- grzm 9y agoThis is more involved than I care to get into here. Here's a Wikipedia article which discusses it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun Why create an account to make your initial comment? It doesn't seem very substantial or on-topic. The two reasons I can think of aren't very charitable, which is why I'm asking, assuming that it's neither of those.
- schrodinger 9y agoMy charitable explanation is that it's a non native speaker of English genuinely asking the question to learn.
- aaron695 9y agoYou don't, unless it's to create off topic arguments/trolling. To answer your question if you know the sex, you say the sex. If not you use sexless pronouns like "their" and "they" even if they are not 'proper' by old strict standards, basically they are, because language evolves.