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[Trueblue Texan]

316. I sincerely appreciate this explanation.

It may come as a shock to some here, but there are people like me who went to school a long time ago and we never had these kinds of discussions in English class. Maybe there are those here who cannot appreciate my ignorance and confusion on this subject, but I NEVER intend to be disrespectful and asked these questions with a sincere desire to better understand how the grammar rules work. Even the singular form of “they” referred to a group the last time I studied grammar. And YES! I know “is” sounds completely wrong with the pronoun “they”. That’s why I brought it up—because I didn’t understand how they could require a plural form of a verb when it was referring to a singular subject.

This is the last I’ll EVER say on this subject on this site. But I appreciate those of you who tried to help me understand. And I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have insulted. I promise you with every drop of blood and bone in my body, that was never my intention. I’m sure in my ignorance, I will mess up from time to time, but I am not a disrespectful or insensitive person and I’ve always supported people with different gender identity, even before I knew there was name for it. If you assumed some kind of gaslighting intention, you would be incorrect.

That is all.