grammar
Language like the climate is always changing - X Company is, or X Company are
Posted on Thu, 2011-03-03 12:00All my writing life I've had rather tedious arguments with purists over one of the unresolved arguments in english grammar. Which is correct: "The Penn Pike is installing signs…" (collective singular, CS) or "The Penn Pike are installing new signs" (collective plural, CP).
All my life I've run into passionate adherents of both. My mother of English/Scots upbringing was a CPer, but my father of German birth and education was a CSer. It was a family argument, and I decided very early in life that both were right.
VERBAL ATROCITY Adverbicide on the Penna pike
Posted on Wed, 1998-06-24 11:42VERBAL ATROCITY Adverbicide on the Penna pike
Originally published in issue 28 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jun 1998.
Page:16
Subjects:grammar adverbicide
Facilities:Penna pike
Agencies:PTC Pennnsylvania Turnpike Commission
Locations:Philadelphia PA
