Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!iuvax!brennan From: brennan@iuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Singular/Plural - (nf) Message-ID: <1578@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 12:17:50 EST Article-I.D.: pur-ee.1578 Posted: Mon Feb 13 12:17:50 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 05:00:40 EST Sender: notes@pur-ee.UUCP Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 34 #R:rocheste:-478000:iuvax:7100002:000:1210 iuvax!brennan Feb 12 21:02:00 1984 The sentence can be parsed (diagrammed) both ways, making either correct! shuttle | was \ one --------|-------------------- \T \s \o | \h \p \f topics | \e \a -------- | \c \t | \e \h | which \e -------- | | | WAS 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. > Neal Weidenhofer I disagree that using WAS implies only one topic was discussed during the whole week. The word ONE implies that there were more topics. Jeff Brennan ...!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!brennan