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Sunday, January 4, 2009

New Year Begins with Agreement Glitches II

Internet home pages are not immune to grammar glitches. Take a look at this headline that appeared on my AT&T home page this week:


Ethiopian troops begins withdrawal from Somalia


TROOPS is plural. BEGINS is singular. This does not work. A simple way to avoid this problem is to remember that, if there is an S on the noun to make it plural, then there should NOT be an S on the verb to make it singular. Got it?


Ethiopian troops begin withdrawal from Somalia

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