Monday, March 10, 2008

Lee's difficulty with subject-verb agreement

http://tampabaygrammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/03/maxwell-jealous-of-obama-trashes-commas.html

Lee hashes subject-verb agreement. I've read it's a felony.

>Data enter a person’s ear and comes out the other ear shaped by the back roads, cul-de-sacs, and curlicues of the alembic of that person’s particular psyche. In other words, it comes out biased.<

Lee starts off maintaining that "data" is plural by using the plural verb "enter". She then uses the singular verb "comes", the singular pronoun "it" and the singular verb "comes" again.

She was trying to appear clever by insisting that "data" is plural. It lasted five words.

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