Using personal pronouns in research writingHyndsight
On balance,I would argue thatalthough it is not realistic to remove all opportunities for privately funded research, governments should have the main responsibility for the monitoring and controlling of this. Strong checks and balances need to be in place to ensure future research is ethical and p...
Elaborating on the definition provided above, neopronouns are singular third-person pronouns that “refer to people entirely without reference to gender,” shares Kelsey Pacha. As research indicates that pronouns outside the gender binary are increasing in usage, particularly among LGBTQIA+ youth, neo...
In Russian, a specialized reflexive possessive pronoun must be used to indicate coreference between the possessor and the subject. However, it has been observed that in the first and second person plural, the reflexivization rule is often violated, and a non-reflexive possessive is used for subj...
Polish also has a formal set of personal pronouns that should be used in conversation with strangers, older people, business associates, and when trying to convey respect; these are, pan (sir or Mr.) and pani (mam or Mrs./Ms.) in the singular, and panowie (gentlemen), panie (ladies)...
On balance, I would argue that although it is not realistic to remove all opportunities for privately funded research, governments should have the main responsibility for the monitoring and controlling of this. Strong checks and balances need to be in place to ensure future research is ethical and...
The womanwhomI askedsaid that she didn’t know.[“I asked her”] Whomdid you saytold you this?[“Them told me this”] Whodid you saytold you this?[“They told me this”] Note Ineverydayconversationnowadays, “whom” is rarely used, since it’s considered overly formal. It’s typic...
GLSEN explains, “This change was made because a person’s pronouns are not just preferred ... They're the pronouns that must be used.” Aubrey Blanche, Head of Equitable Design at Culture Amp, further elaborates: "Beginning the conversation around sharing your pronouns is a simple way to...
"That," like "whose," can be used for people or things. The dog that bit the postman. The postman that bit the dog. (but not popular) Try to use "who" instead of "that" with people (especially in formal writing). Some of your readers might find "that" with people a little ...
One of the reviewers points out, though, that the German man, which according to Fenger (2018) is an N-structure pronoun, like Dutch men, should be a full DP if the diagnostics is to be used for the implicit causee in the Teochew kə-causative, to be shown in Sect. 7.1, is ado...