Poll: He put a bullet through his head.
He put a bullet through his head. |
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Votes: 393
Comments: 4
Added: May 2004
Comments:
| pat beattie - 20th December 2006 01:17 |
| The reader has no knowledge of the person represented by the word "his". We do not know is it was "his own" head.0bdfbc |
| Lynque - 25th March 2007 05:41 |
| Point well taken! Should have had this one! |
| Sandeep - 17th July 2008 11:16 |
| As the person is not mentioned and for suicide 'his' must be folllowed by 'own'. Better stick to murder |
| Douglas - 26th May 2011 19:14 |
| Neither He nor His has an antecedent so one must assume the He and His are the same person because a pronoun represents the noun immediately before it in the written discourse. But in oral conversation He and His could be different people. While the linguistic rules are broken common understanding depends on the context. |
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