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Re: "grammatical red meat" or peevology?
From:
Brett Reynolds <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:17:10 -0400
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On 2010-08-24, at 11:04 AM, Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar wrote:

> > Somebody needs to take their humor pill.
> >
> > Geoff Layton

> And somebody needs to make sure that the pronoun agrees with its antecedent.
>  
> Eduard

But it does. Like 'you', 'their' is both singular and plural.

Best,
Brett

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Brett Reynolds
English Language Centre
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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