Aug 6, 2010 · Is there a pronoun I can use as a gender-neutral pronoun when referring back to a singular noun phrase? Each student should save his questions until the end. Each student should …

His or her is sounding very contrived, and it is no better to substitute her for him than to have him as the gender neutral pronoun. The use of their is increasingly common and should simply be accepted by …

Oct 27, 2016 · "His and her lexicons" will be ambiguous. If you wanna make it clear that they are different for each of them, then I would say "His and her respective lexicons." In this case however, …

Dec 5, 2014 · Closed 11 years ago. I've always thought that using the word "his" as a gender-nonspecific pronoun has been acceptable; in recent years, however, I've been told off by people …

Oct 14, 2010 · Closed 14 years ago. Possible Duplicates: Gender neutral pronoun Is it correct to use “their” instead of “his or her”? I am writing software documentation. I have this issue: I am talking …

Aug 17, 2021 · Welcome to ELU. I assume the answer you don't want is "Yes, it is hers." Although that's perfectly correct, it's trivial. Could you edit the question to be more specific about the answer you're …

Yes, it's both. It's a pronoun because it's coreferential with some other noun phrase, and it's a determiner because it fills the determiner slot in the noun phrase. For instance, we can say her …

Feb 2, 2020 · The different iterations reflect that pronouns change based on how they're used in a sentence. And the "he/him" format is actually shorter than the previously common "he/him/his" …

Possible Duplicate: My wife and I's seafood collaboration dinner I've never known what the proper way to use a sentence in which you and a specific person (as in you can't just say "our" be...

Oct 22, 2015 · A better way to list the forms might be "he/him/his/his" and "she/her/her/hers". The key difference is in the attributive possessive form. English makes a distinction between attributive and …