Bryan Truskolaski wrote:

From: "Julian Fong" <fong_jh@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jhfong@aol.com
To: ffml@anifics.com
Subject: [FFML] Re: [Love Hina][Spoilers] Foxheart chpt. 3
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:11:30 +0000


"Bryan Truskolaski" <truk77@hotmail.com> wrote:

But Highpoints had one other thing going for it; the
d�cor. Almost every square inch of the bar's walls was

were

"Was" is correct.  The subject of the sentence is "inch", not "walls".
"Walls" is the object of a prepositional phrase.

Really? That just doesn't sound right.

Absolutely.  The way to avoid being confused by this sort of
construction is to look at it without the prepositional phrase,
since it has nothing to do with the verb.  Would you say:

Every square inch was

or

Every square inch were

?

                   Chris Mattern


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