Notes from the newsroom on grammar, usage and style. Some frequently asked questions are here. A couple of recent examples:. The walls are covered in prayers to be said during the washing, lifting, emersion , drying and dressing of the body.
After graduating from a private school in Connecticut, Mr. Russ attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, N. Assigned to an ordinance battalion, Private Russ made a nuisance of himself until his request for combat duty was granted. Here is the latest crop of missteps:. As usual, Giorgio Napolitano, the president of Italy, occupied the royal box.
Napolitano, a former Communist and, it turns out, devoted Wagnerite, is one of the few Italian politicians who still enjoys general respect here. Consistency of cooking, no matter who is cooking or who is on the door, is grand. McCain, one of the senators who is closest to the military, was in the remarkable spot of arguing with a phalanx of its senior leadership β¦.
Despite what your ear may be telling you, in each case the verb in the relative clause should be plural, not singular. Well, the number of a relative pronoun is the same as the number of its antecedent. The main clause states that Mr.
Napolitano is one member of this group. Napolitano is one. Cuomo is proposing a limit on the total amount of property tax dollars that can be collected annually by a school district, municipality or special district by capping the increase in the local tax levy at 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less, according to his campaign literature. Over a decade, the number each year has roughly tripled to a little more than , in from around 50, in , according to official figures.
