JournalUsage under Attack
- 4 May 1978
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 298 (18) , 1038
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197805042981836
Abstract
To the Editor: In our letter to the Editor in the February 9 issue about the neutering of English several faulty editorial changes were made. The singular verb "has" in our manuscript was changed to the plural "have" in the sentence: "To date, none of their offerings has met etymologic, semantic, and aesthetic criteria of acceptability." As in a previous instance* a copy editor's (or printer's) change resulted in what grammarians call "blind agreement," that is, the verb has been made to agree with the noun closest to it ("offerings") instead of with the subject of the sentence ("none"). We . . .Keywords
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