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Nonbinary people vary in which pronoun they prefer. Some use he or she, some use e, some use they; there are other possibilities to. Many prefer to use their names whenever possible, and eschew pronouns as much as possible. For instance, if the person's name is (say) Basil (as one nonbinary person I know is named): Basil is coming up the street!
(a) is fine, (b) is fine grammatically, but less common since one would tend to use a pronoun like "who" or "whom" for a person, and "that" or "which" for a non-person. This is not a strictly enforced "rule", and it is easy to find examples of "a person that" or
Individual asserts a uniqueness that person does not, hence "any one person". And some speakers will even feel that individual does not assert uniqueness strongly enough and thus say any unique individual, which other speakers would consider pleonasm. –
'One' is used as a gender-neutral third person singular to refer to an unknown person(as opposed to eg animals). It is not specified whether the person referred to is male or female. It is considered quite formal these days, and tends to be replaced by either 'you' or 'they'.
Also, when you say "Has someone seen my bag" you actually mean at least one from the group has seen your bag. On the other hand, "Has anyone seen my bag" is a general addressing. To make 'someone/anyone' clearer, think about these sentences - Someone can do it - at least one person can do it. Anyone can do it - any person (or better everyone ...
Father's grandfather and grandfather's father are the same person. Father's grandfather and grandfather's father is the same person. Father's grandfather and grandfather's father are the same people. Which one is correct? I guess that the second sentence is right because there is actually one person- singular not plural. Am I right ?
one form for present tense, 3d person singular ... full modals lack this form; one form for present tense, all other persons and numbers ; one form fall past tense, all persons and numbers; The verb be, and only that verb, has two additional forms. one form for present tense, 1st person singular: am; one form for past tense, 1st and 3rd person ...
In the first example, "from one person to another" refers to differences between all people, but you are only talking about two people. In the second example, the phrase "from one another" compares two people (that's what it means), but you had mentioned likes (not people). So both examples sound non-native.
For completeness’s sake, so long as I’m going to the trouble to include footnotes and caveats: there are currently a variety of suggestions for expanding the list of third-person singular pronouns, for example to include a neutral pronoun (i.e. not neuter, which is explicitly inanimate, but a pronoun that can refer to a person without ...
(However, say from could appear in a sentence like “One can't say from that evidence what happened”; except see from or tell from are more likely verb forms in this latter example, and in my vernacular I'd say “From that evidence, one can't tell what happened”. That is, in several of these forms, substitutions are likely to occur in ...