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Time to Give the Hook to Preferred Pronouns
- Culture, Education, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- October 3, 2025
Many years ago, my elementary school teachers taught that a pronoun must match its antecedent – the noun to which it refers – in number, gender, and person. In “John read that rule from his book,” the pronoun “his” is singular, masculine, and third-person. That’s straight-up grammar. Yet every week I read online writers who
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