Re: job-hunt weirdness (Gene Kim-Eng)

[Janet Littell <jlittell -at- verizon -dot- net>]

I wonder if Michael's original remark was based on both meanings  
below. If so, either "has" or "have" could do the job.
Janet


> From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
> Subject: Re: job-hunt weirdness
>
> My impression of this "tedious argument" is that Michael is not the  
> one who
> started it.
>
> Collective nouns are one of the major hair-pullers of the English  
> language.
> They may be either singular or plural, depending on what message the  
> user
> intends to deliver.  My interpretation of Michael's "years have" was  
> that he had
> learned a lesson from repeated observations of other peoples' poor  
> use of
> grammar over a period of years, while your preferred "years has"  
> would have
> suggested to me that he had spent those years continuously studying  
> the subject
> before coming to his conclusion.  Perhaps Michael can tell us which  
> he intended.
>
> For my part, I would rather spend an evening listening to Norm  
> Crosby recordings
> than try to correct someone else's usage of a collective noun  
> without a stack of
> academic references in my hand.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>

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