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  • From The New York Times:

    "Our policy is to pay hourly associates for every minute they work," said Mona Williams, vice president for communications at Wal-Mart. "With a company this large, there will inevitably be instances of managers doing the wrong thing. Our policy is if a manager deliberately deletes time, they're dismissed."

    Question: why THEY is used in the last sentence, if she talks about A MANAGER?

    Any ideas?

  • In the last but one sentence she speaks about managerS.
    May be lingua lyapsus.

  • In fact, this is an example of the case when so called political correctness actively transforms the English language. In the times of our parents, this sentence would read 'he is dismissed'; later on, it became mandatory to use 'he or she'; nowadays, since 'he or she' looks quite ugly, especially with numerous repetitions, it is accustomed to use a neutral 'they' in the bureaucratic lingo. Go figure, huh?:улыб:

  • The indefinite article here means any manager but from all the managers mentioned in the previous sentence. But THEY are more than one.

  • Because a manager in this case means any manager in the company, that's why she used they at the end of the sentence

  • I found your name same as have ma friend.
    I start learn English only three month ago, I have a lot mistakes but i have same progress to.

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