Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: To force a person to retire solely because they have

The issue is the pronoun "they," which according to the GMAT is always plural. For decades, it has been standard to use the singular they/their to refer to one person of indeterminate gender, usually in cases where we don't have a specific person in mind: "Someone dropped their ticket." More recently, "they" has also become popular as a pronoun for individuals who don't identify as male or female. However, the GMAT is still stuck in the past and insists on "his
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