Brandon wrote this sentence in an essay.

everyone in the stadium rose to their feet.

in peer review, cara changed their to his or her, but brandon disagreed. why are both brandon and cara correct?

a. both their and his or her are correct because both are plural expressions and feet is also plural.

b. both their and his or her are correct because rose is an active verb and tells what everyone did.

c. our language is changing, and many style guides now permit either their or his or her to follow everyone.

d. when writing an essay, an author can choose between their and his or her because usage rules do not apply to essays.

The correct answer is C.

Explanation:

Our language is changing, and many style guides now permit either their or his or her to follow everyone. It's part of using inclusive language. Inclusive language is a relatively new way to speak and write to avoid excluding people. Though nowadays it's just a matter of gender equality, soon there might be other ways in which culture, social background, religion and family structure are included too.

gilgamesh is an epic hero from birth, as he's brought to the world by the hand of several gods who shaped him with the goal of saving humanity. there's a passage from the text that reads "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull". this is a great example that show some of the super-human qualities that the gods gave gilgamesh upon his birth.

as gilgamesh grows he has to face many challenges that put his heroism to task. the courage he displays along the way, prove that he's ready to live up to the godly qualities brought upon him. at one point he has to overcome a wild beast by the name of hubamba "whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death", as the text reads. the actions taken by gilgamesh, beating the beast with the use of his super-human force, examplify why he shoud be thought of as an epic hero.

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