This isn't correct yea?

And, every person has an individual style, whether it’s aware of it or not.

From an American website 🤭

Grammatically, it's correct — English has a perfectly fine neutral singular pronoun, it. That said, it is almost universally reserved for inanimate objects, animals and very young humans.

Some of us old geezers are just having a hard time accepting the singular "they."

PiecingBabyFaceTogether · 31-35, M

@DunningKruger Grammarly extension was freaking out about it lol but that's very interesting. I never knew it could work like that in a sentence.

DunningKruger · 61-69, M

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether A lot of people don't like using "it" in regard to people, as it is seen as dehumanizing and objectifying. Although the singular "they" has been around for centuries — Shakespeare used it — and is generally accepted in casual language, it is still not completely accepted in more formal writing. For a long time, the general advice has been to recast the sentence so that it's plural, but that often creates its own problems.

Language is weird.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@DunningKruger

Some of us old geezers are just having a hard time accepting the singular "they."

You must be about six hundred years old then.

redredred · M

“He or she” would be better but in a woke world perhaps the writer is allowing for disparate pronouns.

I hate woke.

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