Improving Your Writing: What Is Singular They?

Headshot of J.T. Bushnell, with short hear, glasses, wearing a black top with words next to him saying, If a writer cares about grammar, they'll use pronouns carefully.

When we’re taught writing, we learn about pronouns: “he,” “she,” “you”, and “they.”

And when I was growing up in school, “you” and “they” were the pronouns we used when we didn’t want to refer to a specific gender.

“You” was used to refer to one person, “they” referred to more than one person.

But that’s changed recently, as “they” is slowly becoming the accepted word to refer to someone in a gender-neutral way.

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Avoid Writing Mistakes When You’re Using Your Mobile Device [Infographic]

Woman using a smartphone while drinking coffee

I admit it, when I write something on my smartphone, I make my share of writing mistakes.

Sometimes I’m lucky and correct the mistakes before sending out that email message to my client with the latest project update.

And sometimes I’m not so lucky.

Ouch.

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Why “No Writing Errors Were Found” Message Displays When You Publish a WordPress Post

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Last week, Brian Fuller, one of our Metro Detroit WordPress Meetup members, asked a question and posted a screenshot in our discussion group:

Anyone ever encountered this? I get the dialog box every time I publish or update a page or post. Thought I would ask before going through and disabling plugins one by one.

Dialog box with message saying no writing errors were found

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