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Future332 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Local news

Does the following sentence make sense?
If just a few people read local news, they wouldn't be so popular among readers.
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it wouldn't be so popular ... News is singular, not plural.

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... it wouldn't be so popular ... News is singular, not plural.
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future332Does the following sentence make sense?
Tautologies do make a sort of sense, but looking at it in another way, it makes no sense to state a tautology.

That is, of course if fewer people do something, then (by definition) that "something" is not so popular. "Popular" means that a lot of people do it. I think that's what you're saying. If
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CJ, you're right. Thank you for helping me realize the contradiction. I guess this is what I wanted to express - If just a few people read local news, we wouldn't see so many different local newspapers.
I know it sounds completely different but anyway....
Hope this is right.
Thanks again.
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future332If just a few people read local news, we wouldn't see so many different local newspapers.
OK. Now you're talking. This makes much more sense.
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