grammar - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What's the grammatical class of quot;we quot; when referring to a group in its entirety versus when referring to each individual member of the group For example, if I said to my girlfriend: We w
Has the word individual outcompeted that of person historically? Consider that originally individual indicated separateness and indivisibility which was intimately close to the era of flourishing individualism so that these properties have been projected towards a human person, and thus you get an 'individual' instead of a 'person '
word choice - Any individual vs the particular - English Language . . . Electrical installations need to be adapted to any individual the particular operating unit in question For some reason any individual sounds better to me than any particular in this context, but I'm not sure about that either
from the level of individual vs. on the level of individual Are you sure you mean individual constituents instead of from the level of the individual constituent? The singular construction is often used to imply the group, and it allows the singular level to be used without any ambiguity: no one will be confused whether you are trying to imply that all constituents share a single level