Hence the name
Grammar has historically been on board with the singular "they" and "themself
Updated on October 7, 2022 Grammar
How to form plural nouns
Using the plural pronoun to refer to a single person of unspecified gender is an old and honorable pattern in
While regular verbs add –s to their stems to form their third-person singular simple-present tense, the regular singular nouns that go with them do not add an –s;
For example, “that is all” works because “that” is singular
Differentiating between datum vs
A third of the appl es were bad
Singular they has become the pronoun of choice to replace he and she in cases where the gender of the antecedent – the word the pronoun refers to – is unknown, irrelevant, or nonbinary, or where gender needs to be concealed
In these cases, the identity of the person being referred to with they or them is unknown or unspecified
This determiner refers to more than one subject, which can make choosing between singular or plural verb tenses difficult
On the one hand, number is singular, which calls for is
Come you Priests and Professors, have you not learnt your Accidence? Either NOUN of them is a good choice
However! For a lot of people the singular sounds strange and they prefer to use the plural
“Some has” works when using uncountable nouns, which means the same rules apply as “some is
two thirds they are plural
of impressive or remarkable quality, consequence, extent, etc
The general rule is that most singular nouns are made plural by adding an -s, -es, or -ies to the end of the word