Thursday, May 1, 2008

Singular subject, singular verb.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/04/anonymous-has-left-new-comment-on-your.html

>Not one of the board members that adorn the board semi-circle have the nerve to rein in Elia in arrogance of that sort. <
Vinegartits requires a singular verb. Not one ... has the nerve.

There's another one of these in her recent posts, but at the time I couldn't be bothered. If I see it again, I'll post it here.

>he had to defend himself against cramping citizens' free-speech rights who come before the board;<
The rights didn't come before the board, airhead.

>and that he knew it and was just counting on the citizen's ignorance to make his hints of a law suit scare them into silence.<
Teacher either can't match her pronouns with their antecedents or can't use an apostrophe. Probably both?


>I also got the fun of tearing up Gonzalez's grammar, punctuation, and writing style. That's my specialty and an especially apposite one with Gonzalez since he has an undergraduate literature degree and since lawyers are supposed to be able to write.<

As are ex-English teachers and university professors, Vinegartits.

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