Difference between revisions of "They"

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They is a pronoun that is the plural of "he" or "she".

[[Liberals], such as the Oxford English Dictionary, sometimes redefine they to be a singular form that includes both "he" and "she".

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 '''They''' is a pronoun that is the plural of "he" or "she".
-[[Liberals]] sometimes redefine '''they''' to be a singular form that includes both "he" and "she".  This is gramatically incorrect because "they" is a plural pronoun, while "he" and "she" are singular.  "He" is traditionally used to refer to both men and women, but the feminist movement has usurped this tradition because of its purported gender bias, and pursued a "politically correct" alternative.
+[[Liberals], such as the Oxford English Dictionary, sometimes redefine '''they''' to be a singular form that includes both "he" and "she".
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