Before presenting the college's athlete of the year award, the athletic director made a point of praising the two athletes who were runners up in this year's competition. according to your textbook, was this choice appropriate for a speech of presentation?

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.