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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007Plurals.
This could have done my head in but I just posted it anyway. "In fact in the Asian Pacific and the Indian oceans, there tends to be 7M quakes with the occurrence of tropical cyclones. And where the winds are significantly in excess of the minimum requirements for a category F1 hurricane, the magnitudes of accompanying quakes is proportionally larger." As an intellectual exercise, what is the correct form for using plurals. I think I should have curtailed this one: "there tends to be.." as "there tend to be..." But, yet... > This could have done my head in but I just posted it anyway. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > plurals. I think I should have curtailed this one: "there tends to > be.." as "there tend to be..." This is how it should read: "In fact, in the Asian Pacific and the Indian oceans, 7M quakes tend to accompany tropical cyclones. And where the winds are significantly in excess of the minimum requirements for a category F1 hurricane, the magnitudes of the accompanying quakes is proportionally larger." To answer your question, though, it should be "there tend to be 7M ["7-M"?] quakes". > But, yet... Bo buts about it, AFAIC.  SignatureFranke: EFL teacher & medical editor Native speaker of American English; posting from Taiwan. "It has come to my attention that my opinions are not universally shared." Scott Adams, The Dilbert Blog, 23 Jan 2007; http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/ teranews charges a one-time US$3.95 setup fee -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com >> This could have done my head in but I just posted it anyway. >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> requirements for a category F1 hurricane, the magnitudes of >> accompanying quakes is proportionally larger." [...] > This is how it should read: > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Bo buts about it, AFAIC. Just one, at the end. You overlooked the extraneous "s" on "magnitudes" (or else the verb has to change to "are", but...). > -- > Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/ > teranews charges a one-time US$3.95 setup fee > cybercypher wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> >> Bo "No" > buts about it, AFAIC. > > Just one, at the end. You overlooked the extraneous "s" on > "magnitudes" (or else the verb has to change to "are", but...). Yes, I did overlook that. Thank you for pointing it out. I usually focus only on the question asked plus anything egregious that catches my eye. I often overlook other stuff. While I don't get paid to do this, but I usually benefit when someone points out that I've missed something. I suppose it could read (a) "the magnitudes of the accompanying quakes are proportionally larger", if the writer means that an F1 cyclone is accompanied by more than one 7M quake, or (b) "the magnitude of the accompanying quake is proportionally larger", if the writer means that an F1 cyclone is accompanied by more than one 7M quake, or (c) "the magnitude of the accompanying quakes is proportionally larger", if the writer means that an F1 cyclone is accompanied by one or more 7M quake. SignatureFranke: EFL teacher & medical editor Native speaker of American English; posting from Taiwan. "It has come to my attention that my opinions are not universally shared." Scott Adams, The Dilbert Blog, 23 Jan 2007; http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/ teranews charges a one-time US$3.95 setup fee -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > > cybercypher wrote: > >> [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > larger", if the writer means that an F1 cyclone is accompanied by one > or more 7M quake. Nice one both -or is that nice ones? Ta. |
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