The White Peril 白禍

"DO EITHER OF YOU THINK YOU CAN BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET?"
Yes, because I also know which pronouns are singular and plural.

And they complain about Sarah Palin's intelligence.

Added at 21:26: "Are each of you willing to...?"

Added at 23:00: May I just say...I will never agree with Hillary Clinton on policy, but she's come a long way in terms of her public persona. Good on her.
Posted by Sean on 2008-10-15 21:25:20
Zak (mail) (www):
Not to make a point of coming to your blog to post contrarian comments, but this is prescriptive grammar at its worst. "Do either of you" gets approximately 75 times more hits on Google than "does either of you," meaning that, as contemporary English, it is correct. Just as ending sentences with prepositions or splitting infinitives.
10.16.2008 7:02am
Marzo (mail) (www):
This descriptive grammar thing are really going to simplify the learning of English for us foreigner.

(Well, not for me in this instance; in Spanish we have grammatical number, even in adjetives).
10.16.2008 10:30am
Marzo (mail) (www):
(Er, adjectives).
10.16.2008 10:31am
Zak (mail) (www):
If thou couldst but realize that language doth change, and twere folly to resist it!
10.20.2008 8:14am

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