Re: How would you type this?

I disagree strongly. The was should be were. Of blood is a prepositional
phrase, not the subject, which is milliliters. It is not a case of a
disagreement, was is wrong, were is correct.

Barb C.
"Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply" <mmeahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> Anne Vasquez wrote:
>> Doctor dictates, "An NG tube was placed, and several hundred cc's of
>> blood were withdrawn."
>>
>> Not sure about the "several hundred cc's" part.
>
> The style guides for most accounts I work on say to spell it out if there
> is no specific number attached.
>
> But the style guides for most accounts I work on also say to use mL
> instead of cc, which is considered a dangerous abbreviation, so I would do
> it:
>
> several hundred milliliters of blood was withdrawn
>
> (I would use "was" because it was the blood that was withdrawn and not the
> milliliters, although I have had people disagree with me on that)


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