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by est31 1123 days ago
Oh that's interesting, thanks! Not a native speaker but I dimly remember hearing about this in english class, thanks for reminding.

I guess then the PhD student is indeed grammatically a singular then. It can still refer to a PhD student in general though instead of a particular one.

https://www.rit.edu/ntid/sea/processes/articles/grammatical/...