somebody/someone
Can “somebody” or “someone” be plural nouns? No. They are always singular.
A sentence like “When somebody runs a red light, they risk causing an accident” is just an example of singular “they.”
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Regarding your example, would it be better to say "When somebody runs a red light, he risks causing an accident"?
ReplyDeleteYour sentence is just fine, too, but the point of the example used in the entry is to show how "they" gets used as a singular pronoun, well explained here:
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