Re: ``Do you or somebody you know have ...''
- From: Padraic Brown <elemtilas.NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:57:36 -0400
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:27:30 GMT, Ron Hardin <rhhardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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Do you or somebody you know have high cholesterol
It has to be, for me,
Do you, or does somebody you know, have high cholesterol
They can't share the operator ``do.''
While I agree with you in prefering "do you or does someone" (in
writing, though not in speech); it is clear that they CAN and DO
"share the same operator". You continually misapprehend what English
may actually do!
With ``and'' it's okay because plural
Do you and somebody you know have high cholesterol
Agreed. Though a mùch less likely question.
Padraic.
la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu
ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu.
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