My blunder was terrible

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My blunder was terrible

Post by vjlenin »

In my last submission, Ed noted my awkward use of pronoun in the whole article. I used singular at some places and plural at others to refer to the same thing. but dont you think, it is more apt to use plural when we regard a group as a number of entities than a collection of entities? Like, "Australia win the world cup than Australia wins?"

I guess both singular and plural would apply well here, dont you think? But my personal preference was plural.

In my latest article, both were not applicable. In some places, where I used proper noun to refer to the company, I used singular, and others, where I used the pronoun "they" for the same company. Dont know how I missed this obvious mistake. Am I giving you too much work, Ed? :oops:
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Post by Ed »

Others have made the same mistake. That's why I blogged about it. Don't worry.

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Post by grouchy »

VJ - Dang you're cute. You must have lots of stories to tell! I'll be waiting and watching. :lol:
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