[projectaon] Re: Editor's Companion Submission

  • From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:08:17 +0000

On 28/01/2010 17:51, Benjamin I Krefetz wrote:


On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, pamail.cgi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


The following was sent from the Editor's Companion form
From: Jan Charv?t <ch.honza@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 13:08:14 on Thursday, January 28, 2010
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(er) 03tcok 244: their desperate cries -> its desperate cries

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Oooh. This is an interesting one. The antecedent is "someone or
something". If "someone" is the more important part of the antecedent,
it should be left as-is, but if "something" is the more important part,
it should be changed to "its".

My gut instinct is to make agreement with "someone" and leave as-is, but
only because "someone" comes first.
I basically came to the same conclusion, that this should be left alone. I have no idea whether there's an actual rule about it, though; I'm going purely from gut instinct! 

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