{"id":308,"date":"2008-04-15T14:04:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T04:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2011-05-23T14:59:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T04:59:21","slug":"he-isnt-a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/he-isnt-a-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"He isn&#8217;t a good start"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span id=\"dnn_ctr686_MainView_ViewEntry_lblEntry\" class=\"Normal\">\u00a0As much as possible, avoid starting any sentence with a pronoun*. Sometimes the pronoun will clearly refer to one person, but often the pronoun is confusing so it is safest to avoid it.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"dnn_ctr686_MainView_ViewEntry_lblEntry\" class=\"Normal\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I recently read the following in a book: &#8220;As Linda came back into the room, she saw Claire was back from lunch. She smiled at Marie then called Bill.&#8221; The question is, who smiled at Marie and rang Bill? The author meant Linda but grammatically the &#8216;she&#8217; of the second sentence is Claire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In business writing, that sort of confusion could lead to misunderstandings about who was to do certain tasks, or just annoy the reader so they will take their business elsewhere. Use a name or title to start a sentence for clarity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">*For the sake of clear communication, a pronoun is a word that can be used instead of a noun &#8211; for example, she, he and it are common pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0As much as possible, avoid starting any sentence with a pronoun*. Sometimes the pronoun will clearly refer to one person, but often the pronoun is confusing so it is safest to avoid it. I recently read the following in a book: &#8220;As Linda came back into the room, she saw Claire was back from lunch. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[86,177,178,180,176,179,1721],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-details-2","tag-business","tag-confusing","tag-he","tag-misunderstandings","tag-pronoun","tag-she","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}