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For questions about pronouns that refer to a specific person or thing, like 'he', 'she', 'it', or 'they'.
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usage of personal pronoun in "not only--but also"
Not only --- but also --- falls under correlative conjunctions. Others include include Either ... or, neither ... nor.
Oft-suggested advice in cases like these is to match the pronoun with the close …
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Getting he/she intuitively right if native language has only gender-neutral pronouns
Women have curves. So does the letter S.
Problem solved.
Similar to the method suggested by Sina, you can get a photo or two of your favorite women and write She on them. If you need to, you can g …
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Can a ship or a car be a "he"?
There is no law that one cannot use masculine or gender neutral pronouns to refer to ships and other things that are normally referred to by feminine pronouns.
For instance, if a female owner wante …
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Use "him" or "her" in this sentence about a hypothetical gender switch?
Great American Novelist* Jonathan Franzen goes with the hypothetical in his 2015 novel Purity:
If Colleen had been a boy, Pip would have slept with him.
–Page 251, Purity: A Novel, published …
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Subjective or Objective pronoun in this case?
When looking at a photo, we usually point to ourselves and say
This is me.
So it's natural to take the the caption as Celebrity Name and me.
Thus, with This is me we have me being used in th …
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