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From: brennan@iuvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Singular/Plural - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 12:17:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 13 12:17:50 1984
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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