To: Cboldt
You got me thinking about terms that have "singular" sense, but sound as though they are plural.Money, too.
Five plus five is ten, because ten is a single quantity. This is the proper grammar when counting back change.
"That's $4.95. A nickel makes five, ten, and ten is twenty."
-PJ
To: Political Junkie Too
... This is the proper grammar when counting back change. Good one. Just about any time a number is used to express a single item, distance, weight. E.g., It IS 3 miles from my house to the store. The parcel IS 10 acres in area.
16 posted on
02/16/2004 9:56:03 AM PST by
Cboldt
To: Political Junkie Too
This is the proper grammar when counting back change.Grammar and counting back change- two lost arts in a single sentence!
19 posted on
02/16/2004 10:22:38 AM PST by
Squawk 8888
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