the person is not specified with his/her gender, so should I use "he/she" because
of gender equality or
just a 'he' which is generally accepted?
Eh, just "he" was fine, until the politically correct thing. Heck, in my textbook, instead of using he, he/she, one, they just use she now (suppose to be gender neutral). What's the world coming to?! =)
What's interesting is that almost all fact scenarios presented in law school (text books, and with the professors I had, and bar review materials) use "she" consistently. It doesn't bother me, but it's odd that instead of balancing the reference out in "fairness" (who really cares?), they go the opposite way.
the number of he and she used in my Hiskool psychology textbook is EXACTLY the same!
I was bored once and counted them... (well, since Psychology need lots of "For Example" text so the authors get to make up scenarios with shes and hes to balance.)
you should use he/she depending on how picky ur teacher is...
It also depends if its for english or some other class like that, or just a blow-off class. you could also use "a person"
<< In the preceding examples the gender of the antecedents is clear from the context, but often the gender of the antecedent of an indefinite pronoun is unknown or mixed. Traditionally in such cases, a masculine pronoun has been used to refer to the indefinite pronoun.
Everyone living in the apartment building did his best to clean the halls.
Although men and women are probably living in the apartment building, grammatical convention calls for the masculine pronoun his to refer to the indefinite prounoun everyone. This practice, however, is changing because using he or his ignores the presence of women. You can recast such a sentence by making the antecedent plural; by using he or she, his or her; or by avoiding pronouns that refer to indefinite pronouns. >>
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