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Subject:Re: His/Her v. Their From:Kathleen MacDowell <kathleen -dot- eamd -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> Date:Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:50:39 -0500
I'm with Craig. However, I often find that using "their" leads to passive
constructions and causes tense or subject/verb problems, either with the
current sentence or the overall context. So it's something to watch out for
when you use it.
Kathleen
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com>wrote:
> I tend to use either "you" or, in the case you mentioned, "their."
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> Some documents I'm editing of necessity give procedures in third person
> rather than the assumed (you) second person. There's no way around this.
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> In the document I'm editing, they use His/Her. My inclination is to use
> "their" - comments?
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