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Re: Dorky grammar question

Subject: Re: Dorky grammar question
From: dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:49:42 -0700


Tammy Lloyd wrote:

...it has always been my understanding that when the phrase is like this: Set of rules.... where a preposition is used, then rules is the object of the preposition and set is the subject and the verb must go with the subject; this means of course, as Gene pointed out, that the rules are required as a set and it is the set that is doing the defining. I think everyone is making this much more difficult than it needs to be.

It's simply not possible to say without knowing the entire context.

It may be the case that "rules" is the object of the preposition, in which case "defines" must agree with "set" ("set...that defines the widget").

There's just as great a chance that "rules that define the widget" is the object of the preposition, in which case "define" must agree with "rule."


Perhaps Mandy can provide us with the rest of the sentence? Her original message only provides the beginning fragment.

Precisely. Without more information, we are *guessing*.

--David

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