On 30 Nov 2006 15:13:35 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL) wrote: >>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.
I couldn't disagree more. "The number is one" - not "The number are one". Or "The number are five". Do you say "the population of the United States are 295,734,134"? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
