Why Keep Searching When It's Already "Their"? Reconsidering "Everybody's" Pronoun Problem.

Nilsen, Alleen Pace

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ERIC Number: EJ622807

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Publication Date: 2001

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Why Keep Searching When It's Already "Their"? Reconsidering "Everybody's" Pronoun Problem.

Nilsen, Alleen Pace

English Journal, v90 n4 p68-73 Mar 2001

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. (SR)

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Arts, Language Usage, Pronouns

Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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