USAGE: number concord in AmE, again
| From: | And Rosta <a-rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 20, 2002, 21:44 |
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Since several people insisted to me in a recent discussion
on this list that in AmE verb agreement is determined
purely by syntactic number, I was struck by the following,
said by the senator from Nevada near the start of The
Godfather part II: "the Sierra Boys' Choir, who have
chosen a special song". Is this because animacy overrides
number concord, so that "who have" is preferable to
"which has"?
--And.
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