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- ISSN: 0013-8274
- E-ISSN: 2161-8895
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Why Keep Searching When It’s Already Their? Reconsidering Everybody’s Pronoun Problem
- Source: English Journal, Volume 90, Issue And Language for All, Mar 2001, p. 68 - 73
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- 01 Mar 2001
Abstract
Discusses the logic, elegance, and history of using they, them, and their as singular indefinite pronouns. Notes that, as a solution to the pronoun problem, the strength of this solution is its vagueness. Offers numerous real-life examples from publications or broadcasts and lists why it is counterproductive for English teachers to exclude this usage from the pronoun system they teach.
© 2001 by the National Council of Teachers of English