
10-Mar-2009, 07:07
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Re: Correction of a text from: http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/
The following is an idiom I think might have some spelling mistakes? Maybe the words "they" should all be changed to "he" as regard to the word "someone"? A fool at 40 is a fool forever
If someone hasn't matured by the time they reach forty, they never will.
Or, maybe I'm wrong, but it's my first time to encounter such sentence pattern: the subject of conditional subordinate clause is "someone" while the subject and the object of the sentence are "they" and "them" respectively. A little bird told me
If someone doesn't want to say where they got some information from, they can say that a little bird told them. |