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Dear teachers,
I found this sentence in a course:
"Someone in their retirement is called a senior citizen."
so I wondred why they used their and not his?, because as we know someone is an indefinite pronoun and we use it with a singular verb, ex:someone wants to talk with you.
I'll be very thankful if someone helps me to solve this problem.
Thank you very much. .
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