Timeline for Are some schools teaching "They" as genderless singular?
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| Jul 7, 2023 at 12:32 | vote | accept | SovereignSun | ||
| Sep 9, 2018 at 14:19 | comment | added | Paul | Should this not also address the actual question, namely whether or not schools in Europe are teaching this? | |
| Sep 9, 2018 at 11:39 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @RobertColumbia To "put up with" is a phrasal verb, you cannot switch the word order. It would be like saying "Please out the garbage take". Avoiding to finish a sentence with a preposition is not that terrible a piece advice of. :) | |
| Sep 9, 2018 at 11:26 | comment | added | Robert Columbia | Not ending sentences with prepositions is a practice up with which I will not put! | |
| Sep 9, 2018 at 0:25 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | +1 Nice post. Not only helpful but interesting for students too :) | |
| Sep 9, 2018 at 0:24 | history | edited | Araucaria - Not here any more. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 8, 2018 at 7:59 | comment | added | Kevin | @PatriciaShanahan: It's not that simple, because second person plurality got all tied up with the T-V distinction, and we ended up losing the singular form entirely. | |
| S Sep 8, 2018 at 1:06 | history | suggested | Tashus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Providing corrected example sentences from the question.
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| Sep 7, 2018 at 21:26 | comment | added | Patricia Shanahan | Using the normal verb form for "they" is consistent with the convention for singular "you". We say "You are..." not "You art...". | |
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| Sep 7, 2018 at 14:15 | comment | added | ShadowRanger | My favorite was always "don't split infinitives", because in Latin, infinitives are single words and unsplittable, where in English they are two words, but somehow it was wrong to split the "to" from the rest of the infinitive because Latin. "To boldly go where no one has gone before" should clearly begin "To go boldly", if you listen to old school English teachers. | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 9:37 | history | answered | oerkelens | CC BY-SA 4.0 |