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- word usage - How to use their and theirs? - English Language . . .
What is the difference between their and theirs, and how is should use them? Sometimes I get frustrated, because I do not see their difference
- phrase usage - Which is correct, “their life” or “their lives . . .
Without context, "their" refers to "no one" which is singular, the choose 1 However,in the text preceding the sentence, there may be a group of people with "lives", then 2
- Do we use its or their with a collective noun?
For example, which sentence is correct? The House's minority makes its voices heard or The House's minority makes their voices heard
- Using their or its when referring to an inanimate object
The general rule is that, when talking about things, you use its for singular and their for plural There is one exception relating to their, for which the Oxford Dictionary defines two usages: of or belonging to people, animals or things that have already been mentioned or are easily identified used instead of his or her to refer to a person whose sex is not mentioned or not known As
- What do they and their refer to in this paragraph?
6 While others have correctly identified what the they their refer to in a strict sense, a literal reading of the referents misses some subtleties in the rhetorical structure The repetition of "their children" (and the associated switch in who "their" refers to) is likely deliberate
- Their + Singular or plural nouns - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
"Their" can have a distributive meaning, so "Most of the employees prefer to eat their lunch at their desk" is the preferred construction
- What is the difference between `their own` and `themselves`?
There are several different types of buses with their own dedicated lanes like a network in the city What "their own" does is emphasize that each bus has its own group of lanes, not shared with any of the other buses If "their own" were not there, it could become unclear if the lanes were dedicated to the buses as a group (the entire group of 5 buses gets 30 lanes), or to each individual bus
- Use of its versus their when using each in a sentence
For clarity and flow I would use the institution's in place of either its or their their has an odd clumping effect as you intuit its could also refer to the model's "particular size and other conditions", rather than those of the institution
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