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Tick which best applies Researcher. And it's not the only gender neutral pronoun story of the week - a gender neutral penguin caused debate on Good Morning Britain.
As did two parents who announced they hadn't told anyone the sex of their baby to avoid gender bias. America's oldest dictionary Merriam Webster has also recently added the word 'they' as a non-binary pronoun to its website. Now, in English, the word "they" is used as a gender-neutral singular pronoun - even though some critics argue that "they" should really only be used to refer to plural nouns. But these identifiers are nothing new and have actually been used throughout the history of literature.
Examples of the singular "they" being used to describe someone features as early as in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and also in famous literary works like Shakespeare's Hamlet in Note that we make the negative or the question with the verb 'be' in the normal way.
The 'used to' doesn't change: Lucy isn't used to staying up late, so she's very tired today. Are your children used to walking a lot? That football team always lose, so they're used to disappointment! We can put the verb 'be' into any tense. So we can talk about things in the past or the future as well as the present using this expression: It was difficult when I first started university, because I wasn't used to the amount of work we had to do.
Soon I'll be used to driving in London and I won't be so frightened! We can also use this in any tense: Don't worry if your new job is hard at first. Researchers have to be completely objective in their findings.
If your child is thinking about a gap year, they can get good advice from this website. A researcher has to be completely objective in their findings. In the past, people tended to use the pronouns he , his, him , or himself in situations like this: If your child is thinking about a gap year, he can get good advice from this website. You can make the relevant noun plural, rewording the sentence as necessary: If your children are thinking about a gap year, they can get good advice from this website.
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