some AssamNet members who revel in splitting hairs on word usage and grammar might like this:
Many SAT prep students still get confused by this debate - a number "is" (or "are") in the library. Many grammar lovers would love this debate. Though I am glad I used Fowler's English Usage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowler's_Modern_English_Usage for GRE prep espeicially the prepositions like 17 uses of "of" and 23 uses of "for" and atleast 15 uses of "would" etc. Umesh http://grammartips.homestead.com/number.html The expression the number takes a singular verb, but a number takes a plural verb. Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/ http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ --------------------------------- Sent from Yahoo! - a smarter inbox. _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
