Timeline for Noun after "their" must be plural?
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| Nov 11, 2018 at 16:04 | vote | accept | Display Name | ||
| May 10, 2017 at 21:39 | answer | added | LawrenceC | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 9:05 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/852809917823991808 | ||
| Mar 25, 2017 at 14:50 | comment | added | SovereignSun | If you give more than one form to every "they" then A' is correct. Else A is correct. | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 14:47 | comment | added | SovereignSun | I say it should be singular, it should be in a sense Each of them." Every person of "they" writes their one date of birth They can't have more than one. | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 14:14 | history | edited | LMS | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 25, 2017 at 8:35 | comment | added | Ali Beadle | @JavaLatte I see, yes. So B or B' are correct given the assumption that they are talking about multiple people, but with the caveat that A would be correct if they wanted to talk about one person but not specify gender. | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 8:28 | comment | added | JavaLatte | @AliBeadle; I don't think your proposed duplicate works: the issue in this question is not they and whether it's singular or plural, but about whether multiple people have a date of birth (one each) or multiple dates of birth. | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 7:52 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 25, 2017 at 7:33 | comment | added | Ali Beadle | Both are correct usage although A is when you are using 'their' for one person of unspecified gender, B is when you are referring to more than one person. However this is broadly a duplicate of Grammatical number agreement in a complex phrase using singular "they" | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 6:43 | history | asked | Display Name | CC BY-SA 3.0 |