Tài liệu 07) Plural personal pronouns docx

 English does not have a good way to solve this problem but on the next few slides we will see some alternatives... Use he or she instead of they Instead of: If the user wants to save

Don't use "they" to talk about one person.

 Many people use “they” as a

singular noun But “they” is plural.

 English does not have a good way

to solve this problem but on the next few slides we will see some alternatives.

Use he or she instead

of they

Instead of:

If the user wants to save as HTML they can click “Save

as web page.”

Write:

If the user wants to save as HTML he or she can click

“Save as web page.”

Use he or she instead

of they

Instead of:

If the user wants to save as HTML they can click “Save as web page.”

Write:

If the user wants to save as HTML he or she can click “Save as web page.”

This is not convenient when you have to write it many times Some authors prefer to only use

“he” or only use “he” This may give the reader the feeling that the writer is talking only about

men or only about women.

Unfortunately, there is no good way to solve this

problem.

Use 'one' instead of

'they'

Instead of:

If the user wants to save as HTML they can click “Save

as web page.”

Write:

If one wants to save as HTML one can click “Save as web page.”

Use 'one' instead of

'they'

Instead of:

If the user wants to save as HTML they can click “Save

as web page.”

Write :

If one wants to save as HTML one can click “Save as web page.”

It will sound strange if a paper uses the word

“one” in this way many times so don’t use this

too often.

About author

Hans Anderson

 2007-Present: Lecturer at FPT

Greenwich Programmes, FPT University

 2007: M.S., Computational

Mathematics, University of Minnesota

 2001: B.A., Computer Science,

Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN