Showing posts with label singular noun plural pronoun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label singular noun plural pronoun. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 April 2013

Singular or plural? # 3

The grammar in these paragraphs, from the Android version of a BBC report published earlier this week, became more confused as the text continued:


The online version shows the correct form of the verb to harmonize with 'formula' in the first paragraph, but it's still not clear how the pronoun 'them' is supposed to function in the second paragraph: