Third person plural

They / their / them. My Portuguese teacher Ilidio showed his first ever hint of frustration at me today when I was being slow on a question about verbs in the third person plural. It was 8am and possibly too early for the fine nuances of grammar.

I had a lunchtime meeting with a conservation colleague, an Italian who’s lived here for nearly 20 years. He carries much wisdom about entering into cooperative agreements with the government to help the management of protected areas. I tried to absorb his experience in a sponge-like fashion.

The burning question of the day is why is Pamela Anderson visiting Julian Assange in jail? This is an unexpected turn of events for anyone who used to tune into Baywatch in the mid 1990s.