I have to agree, Moose, if that is what you were going to write out.
However, you might have written something like, "but by now, Marc,
it's not a hypothesis; there are several hypotheses ... " and you
might have shortened it to. "there are now hypotheses rather than a
hypothesis ..."
And it's quite difficult to type hypothesis or hypotheses unless you
practise as I have been over the last minute or so :-)
Chris
On 22 Aug 2008, at 10:10, Moose wrote:
> Chris Barker wrote:
>> Yes, Moose. You are referring to plural nouns, and your verb
>> should agree with them.
>>
>> And talk about agreeing: it is indeed a great place to be ... :-)
>>
> I'm not entirely convinced. If I had written the whole thing out,
> without substituting pronouns for nouns, it would read "I must point
> out
> that by now the correct word is a plural, hypotheses." That is clearly
> singular.
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