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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Criminal Sentence 327: Birds Sneeze ... and

Subjects agree with verbs. From a column in my local paper:

"If you have a bird and it sneeze once or twice a day and the discharge is clear, there's probably nothing wrong with it."

Just a proofreading issue here.

P.S. I wouldn't want to be the discharge-color checker.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"If you have a bird and it sneezes once or twice a day and the discharge is clear, there's probably nothing wrong with it."

Jeffrey Morris