sentences:  The option of repeating all terms in two gender forms is considered clumsy, and in the singular requires adjectives, articles, and pronouns to also be stated twice.As an alternative, the use of slashes or parenthesis is commonplace, as in , but this is considered visually ungainly and there is no consensus on how it is pronounced.Recently, another approach is to use a phrase such as in an introductory paragraph, but use only the simpler masculine form in the rest of the document, often with a disclaimer.