I am trying hard to make a rule for this Each … their mistake…but hard to coin the rule, as I am very new and learning the rule elements…Could anybody help to do it? More accurately, better…Thanks a million…
The wrong case is:
The register has requested that each student and teacher sign their name on the grade sheet before submitting it.
The correct one is:
The register has requested that each student and teacher sign his name on the grade sheet before submitting it.
I’m not a native English speaker, but the first sentence sounds okay to me. Could you explain what makes it wrong? This is also a good starting point for an error pattern.
I am a native English speaker, and the first sentence sounds okay to me, as well. The singular ‘they’ is permitted almost everywhere. It is less award than she/he, and some prefer it over the possibly gender biased ‘he’.
@John, getting started isn’t all that difficult. I’d recommend to
(a) take a look at the existing grammar.xml for English,
(b) try the online rule editor (and watch the intro video).