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sum vs amount | Preferable vs. preferred

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#31 (permalink) Wed Mar 11, 2009 19:00 pm Everybody/their

Awkward or not, a plural pronoun with a singular subject is grammatically wrong. The whole sentence should be reconstructed if political correctness is the goal.

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