Question
What is grammatically wrong with the following sentence?
"If someone feels they haven’t been treated respectfully, the odds are they’re right."
"If someone feels they haven’t been treated respectfully, the odds are they’re right."
Answers
Ms. Sue
Please see my answer to your last post. Note in this sentence there are two pronoun errors.
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It would be better here to change the subject noun than to change the pronouns.
So would I change it to the following:
The word someone is singular. Therefore you would change they’re to he or she.
The word someone is singular. Therefore you would change they’re to he or she.
Ms. Sue
You could do it that way -- but Guru's suggestion is better and not as awkward. Change <i>someone</i> to a plural pronoun.
Ms. Sue
Or a plural noun.
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