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Seeking ideas to use in an in-service teacher training course. Activities for the seemingly lecture based stuff associated with the program (methodology)such as: lesson planning (principles and practice), micro teaching, assessment (principals and practice), historical background of language acquisi...

My colleague wondered why native speakers use 'their' in the singular form i.e:

As seen in point form:

- instructor should manage their time equally amoung students


Here' 'instructor' is singular, but used with the plural pronoun 'their'.

Anyone know why this is acceptable?

yes, but ...."My mission is to....." is also a noun clause

Thank you to Fluffy Hamster and Lorri Keet for your previous responses on my grammar stumper. Okay who dares to take this one on? Topic: Using Infinitives Grammatically correct sentence: My mission IS TO HELP John. (you need the "to" between "is" and "help" right?)Okay , what about: What I HAVE TO D...

have a grammar question that one of my students has stumped me with. Does the prespoitional phrase determine the position of the verb in this sentence? What do you think ARE the main aims in an English speaking academic essay? Why is this used instead of: What do you think the main aims ARE in an En...

I have a grammar question that one of my students has stumped me with. Does the prespoitional phrase determine the position of the verb in this sentence? What do you think ARE the main aims in an English speaking academic essay? Why is this used instead of: What do you think the main aims ARE in an ...