On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:01:27PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > Yes, but since you are using a linking verb, subject == object. Either both > are singular or both are plural. See John Hein's excellent followup. I > think the real solution is to reword the darn thing as it reads awkward with > the current arrangement regardless of is/are. :)
Agreed.
> I think "all you need" is a very ambiguous phrase which is the problem. If I
> said "All style books are dumb." It's very clear that "books" is the root
> subject and is plural.
Well, you wouldn't get much argument there :)
Ceri
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