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From: neal@denelcor.UUCP (Neal Weidenhofer)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Singular/Plural
Message-ID: <315@denelcor.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 20:02:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  8 20:02:01 1984
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>"The space shuttle was one of the topics which was discussed
> in class this week."
>
>vs.
>
>"The space shuttle was one of the topics which were discussed
> in class this week."

Try diagramming this one (Does anyone still learn to diagram??)

shuttle | was \ one
--------|-----------
\T \s            \o
 \h \p            \f topics
  \e \a            --------
      \c            \t   |
       \e            \h  | which
                      \e --------
                                |
                                |  | WERE discussed
                              -----|---------------
                                     \i       \ week
                                      \n class -----
                                       -------   \t
                                                  \h
                                                   \i
                                                    \s

A quick analysis also shows it:  "Several topics WERE discussed in class
this week.  The space shuttle was only one of them."  In fact, using WAS
implies that there was only one topic discussed in class during the whole
week.

			Regards,
				Neal Weidenhofer
				Denelcor, Inc.
				!denelcor!neal