Timeline for These are they/them or this is they/them [closed]
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| Dec 11, 2018 at 17:22 | comment | added | user1425 | Darael, you answer is great. I up-voted it. | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 17:21 | comment | added | user1425 | Where is the reference towards the correctness of the combination "this is them" and "these are them". Maybe you imply it, but it is not stated explicitly. In my question I openly ask about it. | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 16:30 | comment | added | Darael | Refer, then, to my answer: "they" and "them" can be either singular or plural in English. As a result, either "is" or "are" could be correct, depending on the referent of "they". If you had used anything else in place of "they/them", only one of the two forms would be correct, but the grammatical number of "they" is not fixed, and unlike in the second person (as with "you"), verbs have different singular and plural forms in the third person. | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 10:47 | comment | added | Andrew | ell.stackexchange.com/questions/2790/… Again, a simple search would have answered your own question with much less fuss. | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 10:39 | comment | added | user1425 | Seems like you still don't see what my question addresses. It addresses demonstrative pronouns, your link deals with personal and objective ones. | |
| Dec 11, 2018 at 10:38 | comment | added | user1425 | show me please a similar question. I am eager to see it. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 22:19 | comment | added | Andrew | Again, this kind of question is asked very frequently. Perhaps it's not an exact duplicate of the one I link, but a simple search should reveal many similar questions, | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 20:35 | comment | added | user1425 | It's a pity the ones having voted don't see the issue. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 20:34 | comment | added | user1425 | It's not about NOMINATIVE CASE versus OBJECTIVE CASE. It's about "THIS IS" versus "THESE ARE" (THEM versus THEY are not important really in my question) | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 7:14 | history | closed |
Jason Bassford Eddie Kal user3169 Andrew Varun Nair |
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| Dec 2, 2018 at 15:59 | comment | added | Andrew | Possible duplicate of "Nobody but he/him was present"?. The question makes perfect sense and is hardly off-topic, but it's one that gets asked perhaps once a month. | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 22:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 28, 2018 at 22:01 | answer | added | Darael | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 21:03 | history | asked | user1425 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |