Somebody keeps putting a pen on my desk. Which pronoun type does "somebody" represent?

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Bug · Answer 1 · 2020-05-23T16:21:03+0000

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Singular verb

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someone,somebody, something are all singular. They take singular verbs. HOWEVER, when we have a pronoun referring to someone or somebody and we don't know if that person is male or female, we often (usually) use the pronoun they with a singular meaning.

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