Re: Large Parts Of sing. vs pl.

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> Ron Hardin wrote:
> >
> > The WSJ ledes editorially
> >
> > Eighty percent of New Orleans is under water, and large parts of
> > Mississippi lie in ruins.
> >
> > If they had said ``many parts'' then ``lie'' wouldn't surprise me
> > into reparsing. Some grammatical stickler has edited it, correcting
> > the surface concord rather than fixing the cliche.
> >
> > But a cliche is necessary because they don't want to say they don't
> > know very much about Mississippi.
>
> > On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
>
> Would you say "Large parts of the Bible is in Hebrew"? I think not.

Right, but I don't follow the argument. The example in question is the
``large parts of Mississipi.'' It's certainly interesting that there
examples going the other way and a valuable contribution, but it doesn't
account for the example, which you are invited to do.

You can reread it and get it to sound right or wrong, so I have to go on
strong first impression, which was that number concord was strikingly wrong.

So there's some notional concord rule in question.

--
Ron Hardin
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On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
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