Re: USAGE: THEORY/USAGE: irregular English plurals (was: RE:
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 24, 2002, 19:19 |
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Quoting And Rosta <a-rosta@...>:
(My judgements in brackets)
> Are any of the following okay?
>
> 1a. My family were arguing with each other. [*]
> 1b. My family was arguing with each other. (?)
>
> 2a. My family were behaving themselves. [??]
> 2b. My family was behaving themselves. [*]
> 2c. My family was behaving itself. [grammatical]
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Thomas Wier "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n /
Dept. of Linguistics mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..."
University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought /
1010 E. 59th Street and not complete one road that has no turn"
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