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Hi,
I eliminated answer choice D thinking 'any people' is wrong. Can you please explain this?
thanks!
Notice that the sentence ends
Notice that the sentence ends with "THEY would have stayed warm."
So, the subject of the sentence must be PLURAL, which means we can eliminate A, B and C because they all use the SINGULAR (anyone).
I know that "Any people" might not sound right, but it's no different from saying "any players" or "any chickens"
"Any players who injure any chickens will be fined."
So what should have replaced
If we say he, we are excluding the possible females.
Can we use 'they' for singular nouns when we refer to both gender or we don't know the gender?
For example, "I don't know who is driving the bus; they clearly don't know how to drive"
Answer choice D: If any
Answer choice D: If any people in the hiking club had had the foresight to bring a jacket, THEY would have stayed warm.
If we want to replace THEY with its antecedent, we can write: If ANY PEOPLE in the hiking club had had the foresight to bring a jacket, THOSE PEOPLE would have stayed warm.
Question: Can we use 'they' for singular nouns when we refer to both gender or we don't know the gender? For example, "I don't know who is driving the bus; THEY clearly don't know how to drive"
No, we can't use the plural THEY to refer to one person (if you don't know the gender).
Here are two ways to deal with this:
- I don't know who is driving the bus; HE OR SHE clearly DOESN'T know how to drive
- I don't know who is driving the bus; THE PERSON clearly DOESN'T know how to drive
Cheers,
Brent
just to confirm, any can
Correctamundo!
Correctamundo!
Hi,
Please explain the correct usage of have had / had had.
Thanks
Good question.
Good question.
Grammar Girl provides a nice explanation here: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/when-are-double-word...
Cheers,
Brent
As someone who has learned
You're absolutely right;
You're absolutely right; using is a pronoun THEY to represent one person is totally acceptable these days.
I have to imagine that, at some point in the future, the GMAT will adopt a similar stance with regard to SC questions.