You are indeed correct (as always) when it comes to language. However,
I hope your obsession with subject and verb agreement didn't cause you
to lose track of content of the message... but I suspect it did.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/25/2011 8:23 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Please forgive me, Chuck, but we discussed this about a year ago. I
> think that need to point out the example that you have provided. :-)
>
> The subject of the sentence is "none", meaning "not one", which is
> singular. So it should be "None of . . . is capable . . ."
>
> I know, it's almost an obsession with me -- mea culpa. But this
> language will lose what little logic contained in its construction if
> we can't make the subject and verb agree in number.
>
> Chris
>
> On 25 Aug 2011, at 13:08, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> None of my digital cameras except the recently acquired Samsung
>> WB650 P&S are capable of doing video. But even then I haven't used
>> it (except accidentally) since I don't have much interest (or
>> knowledge).
>
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