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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
Whats the difference between each and individual? Individual animals take on specialized roles to ensure the entire group is fed Each animals take on specialized roles to ensure the entire group is fed Is there any meaning difference between th
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 for a piece of a whole - English Language Usage Stack Exchange You also asked for "an object alone, but can be assembled into something greater " Thus, I'm going to say synergistic element Because synergy is: the interaction of multiple elements in a system to produce an effect different from or greater than the sum of their individual effects
pronouns - Is it correct to use their when referring to a single . . . Even people who use singular they generally do not extend it to eclipse all singular pronouns like this There was a recent question where someone mentioned their (!) eight-year-old daughter ‘correcting’ his use of she for an unspecified, but female, classmate, claiming it should be they; but that sort of usage remains a marginal exception
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