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Bokeh wrote: CalifJim wrote:Hmm. I would not have described it that way at all. I'm not even sure it's a him sounds like a very ordinary remark to me when in doubt about the sex of someone, In Britain such an expression is quite common to describe someone with traits of a "third gender...

CalifJim wrote:Hmm. I would not have described it that way at all. I'm not even sure it's a him sounds like a very ordinary remark to me when in doubt about the sex of someone, In Britain such an expression is quite common to describe someone with traits of a "third gender person"; the...

Forbes wrote: Cool Breeze wrote:Fortunately English is structurally so simple... ?Hi ForbesIn the days of Old English the grammar of the language was more complicated than it is today: nouns had three genders, and there were even strong masculines as there are in modern German, 's' wasn't the...

(a) perfect! (b) fine. (c) Vincent Teo, this is an example of one of the mistakes you make very frequently. You start with "she" and then switch to "his." If she is talking to her own friends, it needs to be her friends. (If a woman is talking to the friends of a man, you should make that...

In this case the antecedent is clear because of the gender of the pronoun but in other cases you need to be careful. For example: Joe told Adam his wife was seeing another man. In this sentence it is not clear whether we are talking about Joe's wife or Adam's.

Pucca wrote:So, Alexa and Sara are the same person, aren't they? Point number one: No. But I'm awfully proud that you think so. I'd rather be taken for an obviously intelligent woman than for an obviously silly one. Well, each person has it's opinion (is it said in this way?), if he wants to...

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I do not think any lawyer would refer to a client as "it" in a letter. There is the problem of whether to refer to a company as "our client" or "our clients". Using "our client" is fine until you need to use a pronoun. If you say "they" this does not sit very well with the singular, so you find...

Hi JanissaryMy language, Finnish, is as follows:1. There are no articles and nouns have no gender.2. There is only one pronoun for he and she. There is another pronoun for it. In spoken Finnish the equivalent of it is frequently used to refer to a person as well. (Grammarians dislike this usage...