In the following sentence, should the possessive adjective 'our' be used? And I'd like to know other possible adjectives.
××× When the mosquito bites a human, she injects saliva into our skin before drawing blood.
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Sign up to join this communityIn the following sentence, should the possessive adjective 'our' be used? And I'd like to know other possible adjectives.
××× When the mosquito bites a human, she injects saliva into our skin before drawing blood.
The correct pronoun in this case shouldn't be any. An article should be used instead.
The context seems to be one of observation or scientific study. Detachment is appropriate. You aren't really talking about a person in a personal sense, but a entity of type "human."
When the mosquito bites a human, she injects saliva into the skin before drawing blood.
The correct pronoun in this case should be ‘his’ or ‘her’.
‘our’ is incorrect in this case since ‘a human’ is singular while ‘our’ refers to a plural group of humans that includes the writer.