Which pronoun to refer to "person"? It? He or She? They?
2014年1月4日 · @user58319, as for your edit: both "she" and "it" are grammatically correct. Semantically "she" is correct in the example you provided as well, because Sam recognized the person as a woman. If, for example, we are not sure of the gender of a …
meaning - What does "Per [person's name]" mean? - English …
2014年6月9日 · The room costs 40 € per person. In this case, per has a meaning for for each. This matches with the main question as asked in the topic title, but doesn't with the example given in the thread itself: per John, as you never charge something per John, haha. There's another case where per would fit both your examples. Like this:
A word for someone who loves searching, learning new things?
2014年8月14日 · In business theory, the term "early adopter" is used to describe this type of person. "In the diffusion of innovation theory, the minority group (comprising about 14 percent) of population which, after innovators, is first to try new ideas, processes, goods and services.
single word requests - Noun for a person who is stubborn?
2017年1月27日 · A person who strongly opposes change or who continues to support something in spite of opposition. Similarly, the British entry for diehard in The Cambridge Dictionary lists it as a noun meaning: [S]omeone who is unwilling to change or give up their ideas or ways of behaving, even when there are good reasons to do so.
"I and someone", "me and someone" or "I and someone we"
Like, "Jack is a <n-word for black person>" is completely grammatically correct, but surely an English teacher who does not make clear that this phrasing is considered extremely rude in most contexts is seriously mis-informing his students. (And may be responsible for resultant social condemnation and physical injuries.) –
"With who" vs. "with whom" - English Language & Usage Stack …
The person who/that I’m doing the project with should be here soon. If you strand the preposition, it sounds best to me to omit the relative pronoun, but it is also possible to use an explicit relative pronoun in this context. If you do, either who or that sounds OK to me. (Some people think "that" cannot be used for animates, but this is a ...
Should it be "concerned person" or "person concerned"?
An office colleague wrote the following in an email: Kindly log a ticket for the same and assign it to the concerned team. I wrote back the following: I believe it should be "Kindly log a ...
Etymology of "div" meaning "a stupid or foolish person"
a stupid or foolish person. I started to wonder how this term of abuse came about. Urban Dictionary has a quaint tale: Actually originates from prison slang in the UK. A job often given to the lowest inmates was to put cardboard dividers into boxes. Someone given this job was a 'divider' or a 'div'. Now used as an insult to those who display ...
"a person" vs "the person" - English Language & Usage Stack …
2015年2月24日 · "a person" vs "the person" Ask Question Asked 9 years, 10 months ago. Modified 9 years, 4 months ago.
What is the proper way to say possesive with "person X" and self?
Possible Duplicate: My wife and I's seafood collaboration dinner. I've never known what the proper way to use a sentence in which you and a specific person (as in you can't just say "our" because you want to specify who) possess something.