Thread: Seriousness English (or US) grammar
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Old 09-23-2011, 01:35 AM   #1
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English (or US) grammar
I noticed something this morning.

I opened my google talk application and saw this message:

"person x is offline. You can still send this person messages and they will receive them the next time they are online."

I noticed this before. You know you're talking about 1 person (the sentence starts with that even) and yet, the sentence ends with a plural. Why is that?

I find it looks very weird...
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