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Old 03-23-2012, 06:39 PM   #1
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But how else would you represent a singular antecedent that is gender-neutral and indefinite when you want to use an anaphor that is bound by its antecedent?
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Old 03-23-2012, 06:45 PM   #2
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But how else would you represent a singular antecedent that is gender-neutral and indefinite when you want to use an anaphor that is bound by its antecedent?
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Old 03-24-2012, 12:13 PM   #3
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But how else would you represent a singular antecedent that is gender-neutral and indefinite when you want to use an anaphor that is bound by its antecedent?
Wow, that's not just a grammar Nazi talking, that's the whole Third Reich.

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