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Re: Singular or Plural?

Subject: Re: Singular or Plural?
From: "Kathleen MacDowell" <kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com>
To: "Steve Read" <steve -at- readonly -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:59:54 -0600

Although the second example is parallel, the first could be more correct,
say the group provides more than one analysis. Not knowing the rest of the
sentence, I'd say one approach would be to rewrite, breaking the two apart.

On 2/9/07, Steve Read <steve -at- readonly -dot- com> wrote:


Bonnie Granat wrote:
>
>> The latter, because you must have parallel construction of the two
things:
>> analysis and assistance.
>>
>> You wouldn't say "We had discussions and dancing," but you would say,
"We
>> had discussion and dancing."
>>
>> Bonnie Granat
>> http://www.GranatEdit.com
>>
Have you never had tea and cakes?

Steve Read

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References:
Singular or Plural?: From: Darges, Katherine
RE: Singular or Plural?: From: Bonnie Granat
Re: Singular or Plural?: From: Steve Read

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