Singular they is a gender-neutral third-person pronoun in English. It typically occurs with an indeterminate antecedent, to refer to an unknown person, or to refer to every person of some group, in sentences such as: This use of singular they had emerged by the 14th century, about a century after the plural they.
Singular they is a gender-neutral third-person pronoun in English. It typically occurs with an indeterminate antecedent, to refer to an unknown person, or to refer to every person of some group, in sentences such as: This use of singular they had emerged by the 14th century, about a century after the plural they.
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