Use of "they" to refer to a person singular is perfectly acceptable. You must be a Septic to think otherwise...Capital_9 wrote:It is rather shocking that the grammar police did not ever mention the continual violation of number agreement (single person - plural "they") being committed in almost every post of the OP on this thread. If this is indeed an English teacher's sock puppet, he has much to answer for.LoneStar wrote:As I read through all of this, I keep wondering..............why all the subterfuge? Why use the extremely vague and awkward pronoun "they", while referring to what everyone knows is a girl??? The more you try to describe who this person is not, while refusing to disclose any info......makes your request, and this thread very strange.
http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2 ... s-correct/
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words ... ersus-they
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they