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HUBLOT Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

One of the police officer

http://www.thelocal.se/38128/20111223/
Police attempted to stop the car, which was wanted. Instead of stopping, the driver attempted to run over one of the police officer.

Why would it be correct to say one of the police officer instead of "one of the police officers"?
  

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Hi Both are correct. Prajwal

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Hi

Both are correct.

Prajwal
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Callers to MediaCorp's hotlines said in one of the accidents, about 10 vehicles were reported to have been involved.


Would it be correct to say "one of the accident" in place of one of the accidents?

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Both "one of the police officer" and "one of the police officers" are correct, but "one of the accident" is incorrect and "one of the accidents" is correct.
I'm confu
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HUBLOThttp://www.thelocal.se/38128/20111223/Police attempted to stop the car, which was wanted. Instead of stopping, the driver attempted to run over one of the police officer.

Why would it be correct to say one of the police officer instead of "on
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Hi,





Both "one of the police officer" and "one of the police officers" are correct, but "one of theaccident" is incorrect and "one of the accidents" is correct.
I'm confused.


You have a completely wrong idea about this.
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Thank you, Clive.

I think that 'one of' + plural is correct. However, Prajwal said, "Both are correct," so I got confused.
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When I try to analyze this grammatically, I come up with it should be "one of the police officers." However, when I just run it across my tongue, I get that "one of the police officer" may be okay (I get the vague impression that I've heard this kind of construction before in the distant past)- and I cannot explain why this is so.

This is written in Sweden by a non-native speaker of Eng
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Prajwal was wrong.

So far everybody has been too polite to say so.

Rover
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Rover_KE wrotePrajwal was wrong.

So far everybody has been too polite to say so.

Rover
Dear Rover,

I strongly prefer 'one of the police officers' but I have seen a few novels using this phrase. Only for this reason, I had said that both are right. Only now have I realised that this phrase is outright wrong.

Regards,
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