09-20-2015, 10:08 PM
(09-20-2015, 09:56 PM)bfine32 Wrote: If the gender is known then the proper associated pronoun should be used. If the gender is unknown then the masculine form should be allowed. It is grammar. But alas to be PC we have to write sentences such as:
If anyone wants his or her picture taken, he or she should dress appropriately, unless he or she has a note from his or her mother or father.
It is allowed, just discouraged. As for your statement in regards to the grammar, the singular they is grammatically acceptable and far less clumsy than your sample sentence. It has been use for a long time.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
