Ugly Disagreements (not really!!!)

[elleng]

Singular goes with singular, plural with plural. Sounds easy. Yet agreement problems abound in our prose, between subjects and verbs, between nouns and pronouns. The perils are all familiar: phrases intervening between subject and verb that throw us off track; collective nouns that veer from singular to plural; tricky words like “each”; and, of course, that infamous “one of the people who …” construction that we simply refuse to get right.

The only safeguards are greater care in the writing and closer scrutiny in the editing. The latest roundup of lapses:

http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/ugly-disagreements/?_r=0

[Jefferson23]

1. I'm just glad I can't be formally prosecuted when I goof up, lol.

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