Oh that's interesting, thanks! Not a native speaker but I dimly remember hearing about this in english class, thanks for reminding. I guess then the PhD studen

Oh that's interesting, thanks! Not a native speaker but I dimly remember hearing about this in english class, thanks for reminding. I guess then the PhD student is indeed grammatically a singular then. It can still refer to a PhD student in general though instead of a particular one. https://www.rit.edu/ntid/sea/processes/articles/grammatical/types/specificgeneral https://www.rit.edu/ntid/sea/processes/articles/grammatical/...