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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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0 Was reading an American football magazine that I get weekly and noticed the following:02br
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00"Statements like that from Meyer on tempering Tebow will do nothing to dampen the fervour of the Gator Nation."02br
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00Should it not be "Statements like those..." ?02br
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00Thanks,02br
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0 "Those" is plural; "That" is singular.02br
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00Meyer is making 01b00a 02b00statement, which may be one of many.02br
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00If the writer referred to (for example) 01i00statements from Meyer and Johnson02i00, then "those" would be required.0-
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0 Thanks for your help, but I'm still a little puzzled.02br
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00Is the fact that there is only one actor (Meyer) the reason why that is used instead of those? On first reading this sentence, I thought the key word here was statements, and that is what determined whether that or those should be used.02br
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00Thanks.02br
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0 No, he could have written 'those', too, but he just wanted to reffer to one statement. 'Statements' here just indicates that similar statements would also do nothing.02br
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00I don't know how to explain it more obvious. 0-
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0 Thanks for your help.02br
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