Sigh! I did the unpardonable: I went back and revised part of a sentence
without reading it after I revised it. Originally, it was "There seems to be
employment opportunity for..." and then I changed it to what you see without
renegotiating the necessary agreement between subject and verb.
I'm a passable, fair to middlin' writer, but I'm a really miserable
proofreader. As the old Southern commedian Brother Dave Gardner used to say,
"I may not be grammatical, but, by God, I'm communicable."
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Walt, a question for you. You wrote "There seems to be employment
> opportunities" - what is the subject of the verb, and is it (the subject)
> singular or plural?
>
> Truly, it's a question, despite that it may appear to be baited (it isn't).
>
> --
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Walt Wayman
> Sent: 07 June 2005 20:04
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: An English apology !
>
> Oh, I understand. At least a couple of times a day I have to resist the
> urge to e-mail the Republican Network (a.k.a Fox) or CNN about some of the
> atrocious mistakes in their annoying "crawlers" across the bottom of the
> screen. There seems to be employment opportunities for high-school dropouts
> at both networks. Of course, the folks who watch Fox probably don't notice.
>
> See the smiley! :-) "Smiley" rhymes with "O'Reilly." Oh, really? Factor
> that in.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
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