Timeline for How to avoid gender dependent pronouns? [duplicate]
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| Oct 30, 2016 at 9:46 | history | closed |
Alan Carmack Em. Nathan Tuggy P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica JavaLatte |
Duplicate of Is there a gender-neutral pronoun that can replace “his” or “her”? [duplicate], Usage of "they" / "them" / "their" when the person's gender is not known | |
| Oct 30, 2016 at 6:28 | answer | added | Peter | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Oct 29, 2016 at 18:18 | comment | added | Ahmad | @Mick Maybe, however articles are one of the difficult parts of English. It's interesting you know in Persian we don't have any gender-specific pronoun ( we don't discriminate them : ) ). Moreover we don't have a definite article. If something doesn't have indefinite articles (something like "a" in English before it or a postfix "i") is definite or a generic term. | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 18:07 | comment | added | Mick | Possibly. You do realise that you may know more about English grammar than I do? I had my last English lesson half a century ago. Since then, it has just been "on the job" training -- the university of life, as they say. | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 18:04 | comment | added | Ahmad | @Mick it seems you mean "zero article" rule. | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 18:00 | comment | added | Mick | The items of interest don't have to belong to anyone, so you can just say "identify items of interest." I don't know why you can do it, but you can. We need a tame grammarian to tell us why. Maybe one will happen by presently. | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 17:54 | comment | added | Mick | Absolutely not. No way. Nada! | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 17:52 | comment | added | Ahmad | @Mick thanks, you mean "the items of interest" with "the" right? | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 17:45 | comment | added | Mick | In this case, just omit the pronoun. They are not going to be anyone else's items of interest are they? You won't always be able to circumvent this hoary old problem. If you try, you'll end up like Don Quixote -- tilting at windmills. | |
| Oct 29, 2016 at 17:40 | history | asked | Ahmad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |