Aug 23, 2024in short, "she/they" is the most common way for a person to indicate that they go by "she/her" or "they/them" pronouns, likely with a preference for the former. Nov 8, 2019the difference is that she's and similar shortened forms are used in colloquial speech, but not in certain cases. In your example, she is being emphasised.
Using she as a generic or gender-neutral singular pronoun is more common than might be expected, given the continuing debate. So my question is should she has be contracted as she 's in the above example like in the examples found from google ngram to avoid confusion? According to grammar rules, it should be "this is she", because " is " is a linking verb (a verb that connects the subject to more information about the subject), so it can't have an object ("her"), but it's.
0 yes, both (s)he and he/she are acceptable abbreviations for usage where space is at a premium and gender of a person is important.