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The jury is still out. You certainly hear "they" used to refer to a person when the gender isn't know, and it's more and more common in informal writing, but there are still peope who oppose its use for the singular in all writing, and many who oppose it in formal writing. Options include...

Mister Micawber wrote: Dependent clause, independent clause, separate sentence, separate paragraph-- the pronoun must agree in person, gender and number with the noun to which it refers . This is a simple rule. The only problem that remains is what to use for a third person neutral gender...

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an...