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Is it wrong to say for example If one is hungry they should go eat Or do I have to use something else instead of they If yes what should I use?
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∙ 13y ago
Technically, if one is hungry, one should go eat; if someone is hungry, he should go eat. However, it has long been the custom of English speakers to use "they" (an imported, Scandinavian word, by the way) as the third person singular pronoun of unspecified gender when the antecedent is "someone" or "a person" and so forth. Political mis-correction insists on the awkwardly unnecessary "he-or-she" in that context, but the old way is best, at least in speech. In writing, try to avoid using the ugly he-or-she by restructuring the antecedents into the plural.
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∙ 13y ago
In the example given, using "they" to refer to one person is not technically incorrect but it can be confusing. To make it clearer, you could use "he or she" or simply use "he" or "she" depending on the context. Alternatively, you could rephrase the sentence to say "If someone is hungry, he or she should go eat."
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