Include <them / him / her> in the loop
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This seems to have been split from a thread about e-mail.
"Include X in the loop" simply means to inform X, usually by a cc on the e-mail. We'd say him if male, her if female, them if more than one person.
"Include X in the loop" simply means to inform X, usually by a cc on the e-mail. We'd say him if male, her if female, them if more than one person.
It could be that they are including more than one person in the loop.Why would somebodysayssay " Include them in the loop" if they missed a person in the loop, why not "include him/her in the loop?
Normally "them" is used when you talk about more than one person, but it can also be used in certain situations to talk about a single person, if you don't want to reference their gender, or if you don't know their gender.
For example on an internet message board like this, I could refer to you, ninjutsu, as "they" because I don't know if you are male or female.
There are previous threads discussing the use of 'they' and 'them' as singular third person pronouns where gender is unknown. See this thread: Gender neutral 3rd person singular pronouns - she, he, them, they, their, he/she, s/he, his, her, its
Because "somebody would says" is incorrect.
Because modal auxiliary verbs* are followed by the bare infinitive.
* will, shall, would, could, can, may, might, must, should, ought not, and need not. Ought and need are followed by the full infinitive.