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Subject:Re: A grammar-gender question From:Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU> Date:Tue, 27 Jun 1995 10:38:23 -0600
On Mon, 26 Jun 1995, Richard Anderson wrote:
> I want to say, "To view a user's group and rights, highlight their name;
> their individual information will appear in the Group and Rights portions
> of the window." But using "their" with "a user" is bad grammar.
Try:
"To view the user's group and rights, hightlight the name; the individual
information will appear in the Group and Rights portions of the window."
This simple substitution might solve the problem for this sentence at
least. I agree that this is a common problem and an overall solution is
still problematic.
