[projectaon] Re: Editor's Companion Submission
- From: Owen Bramwell Allen <triwen@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:54:16 +0000
How about "the desperate cries", this makes it nice and neutral so it
does not matter if it's a something or a someone.
On 28 January 2010 22:08, Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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