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Sashadroogie
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A vodka breakfast is one of those breakfasts that has to be experienced to be believed. When washing down delicious caviar, it is one of those experiences that has got to be illegal in many parts of the world...
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Sashadroogie
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This discussion reminds me of the 'none' debate too.
"None of you has/have any real understanding of what the Communist future will bring you."
I say, based on mathematical logic, that the former option is the way to go. None equals not one. Therefore singular. The you is the object of the prep of, and does not have any bearing on the verb form.
Yet despite this obvious truth, the latter is more prevalent in many a corpus. Just goes to show that there needs to be a whole load of reeducation after the global conversion to Utopia.
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Sirens of Cyprus
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:38 am Post subject: Re: Help with a grammar question |
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| Kent F. Kruhoeffer wrote: |
a) He is one of the students, who was praised.
b) He is one of the students, who were praised.
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Both are idiotic. The only reasonable version would be without a comma, as follows:
He is one of the students who were praised. |
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Trina Marlow
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:15 am Post subject: Re: Help with a grammar question |
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| Kent F. Kruhoeffer wrote: |
Hi there!
I usually don't have many questions related to grammar, but this one has me a little stumped.
a) He is one of the students, who was praised.
b) He is one of the students, who were praised.
My gut instinct is to go with choice 'a' since he/one ... was.
However, one of my students has an English teacher who told him that choice 'b' is the correct answer. i.e., Does the relative pronoun 'who' change the subject from 'he' to 'students'? If so, answer 'b' would or could indeed be correct.
Cut to the chase: Are both 'a' and 'b' correct, i.e., open to interpretation, or is there only one correct answer, from a strict grammatical perspective?
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I would go for letter B, that seems to be nice and right to hear. |
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