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The use of they to agree to with a singular antecedent as in the sentence "Everyone said they knew what they were doing."
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Singular they — is a popular, non technical expression for uses of the pronoun they (and its inflected forms) when plurality is not required by the context. The Chicago Manual of Style notes: On the one hand, it is unacceptable to a great many reasonable readers … Wikipedia
They — (IPAEng|ðeɪ) is a third person, personal pronoun (subject case) in Modern English.UsageThe singular they is the use of this pronoun, where they is used as a gender neutral singular rather than plural pronoun. The correctness of this usage is… … Wikipedia
They singulier — Le they singulier est l utilisation dans la langue anglaise du pronom de la troisième personne du pluriel they pour désigner une personne seule de sexe indéterminé. Le they singulier est courant en langage officieux et devient de plus en plus… … Wikipédia en Français
they — (thā) pron. 1) Used to refer to the ones previously mentioned or implied. 2) Usage Problem Used to refer to the one previously mentioned or implied, especially as a substitute for generic he: »Every person has rights under the law, but they don t … Word Histories
they — ► PRONOUN (third person pl. ) 1) used to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily identified. 2) people in general. 3) informal people in authority regarded collectively. 4) used to refer to a person of unspecified sex … English terms dictionary
they — they, them, their These three pronouns have all been used since the 16c to refer back to a singular pronoun, especially an indefinite pronoun such as anyone, everyone, nobody, someone, etc.: • If someone walks across it, they interrupt the beam P … Modern English usage
Singular and plural — ◊ GRAMMAR The singular is the form of a count noun or a verb which you use when referring to one person or thing. The plural is the form which you use when referring to more than one person or thing. For details of these forms, see entries at… … Useful english dictionary
singular and plural — ◊ GRAMMAR The singular is the form of a count noun or a verb which you use when referring to one person or thing. The plural is the form which you use when referring to more than one person or thing. For details of these forms, see entries at… … Useful english dictionary
Singular value decomposition — Visualization of the SVD of a 2 dimensional, real shearing matrix M. First, we see the unit disc in blue together with the two canonical unit vectors. We then see the action of M, which distorts the disk to an ellipse. The SVD decomposes M into… … Wikipedia
Singular homology — In algebraic topology, a branch of mathematics, singular homology refers to the study of a certain set of topological invariants of a topological space X , the so called homology groups H n(X). Singular homology is a particular example of a… … Wikipedia
