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Those pesky pronouns can trip you up
By George Pearson
Pronouns can be tricky little devils
to get right, so it's best to pay them
the respect they deserve when
faced with a choice. You don't
want egg on your face when a
customer, client or the public see
that a document you produced
contains one or more grammar
slips.
Sometimes it's the failure to
identify the pronoun's antecedent
(the word or words it stands for) that
causes an error. Below is a sentence,
taken from a large daily newspaper,
that contains two such errors; can
you spot them?
One of the first things a custom-
er sees when they walk through
the doors at King and Bay are a
bank of iPads loaded with BMO's
products and services.
First of all, a customer is singular,
so the pronoun they does not agree
with it. We could say when he or
she walks through the doors, but
that gender-corrected construction
makes the sentence clunky. The
smoothest fix is to go with the plural
all the way: change customer to
customers.
The second error: One of the first
things … are a bank of iPads … . The
fix here is clear and uncomplicated:
Change are to is.
So here is how the sentence
should have been worded: One
of the first things customers see
when they walk through the doors
at King and Bay is a bank of iPads
loaded with BMO's products and
services.
