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Old Fri Mar 05, 2010, 02:55pm
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Originally Posted by mbyron View Post
Worthy goal, but not an excuse for bad grammar. If you make your pronouns plural, change their antecedents accordingly:
"And if players attempt a jump shot at the wrong basket and get their own rebound...."
We need a gender-neutral pronoun. We used to have one, but apparently it too closely resembled the masculine pronoun.
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