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Writing Support for Doctoral Students: Grammar Links
This guide provides multiple writing tools for doctoral students.
This article provides an explanation about the use of the singular they and gives alternatives to avoid the use of the singular they in scholarly writing.
Explains what gerunds and infinitives are. Points out that gerunds and infinitives used as a subject in the sentence always takes the singular verb form.