-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: MB to Cyl Conversion
>SAY 'THE NUMBER OF TRACKS IS' TRK UGH! Where's your grammar? Home. Baking cookies (or dropping them onto your PC). I can accept 'The number of tracks are'! Even for 1. I cannot accept 'IS'! I actually check for that exception when I SAY something. When in doubt. PANIC!! <snip> Is the subject "number" or "tracks"? Let's see, if we drop all but the subject... The number is 200. Hmmmm. "Number" is single, "is" matches, so "is" is the correct verb. However, if the subject is "of tracks"... The of tracks are 1. Hmmmm. The "of" causes a problem. Guess that means that "of tracks" is not the actual subject, but a prepositional phrase. Later, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
