A pronoun stands in place of a noun, so it must take the same form of a verb as that noun would have taken.
For example, if "Judith Butler is", then "they is". We are just going to have to get used to this. And so is they.
Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
This will either be normal on 10 years' time or we'll have won the whole battle.
ReplyDeleteAnd I know which I prefer.
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