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Eipjoo Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
say or says?
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Leading the news this morning. The 2-Day FM radio presenters behind the royal phone prank that went tragically wrong say it was not their decision to broadcast the recording.
Even though the script wrote ‘say’ in its text, I hear ‘says’ instead of ‘say in the news.’ Would you check what does the news presenter really say?
http://k.daum.net/qna/view.html?qid=50qHp
Leading the news this morning. The 2-Day FM radio presenters behind the royal phone prank that went tragically wrong say it was not their decision to broadcast the recording.
Even though the script wrote ‘say’ in its text, I hear ‘says’ instead of ‘say in the news.’ Would you check what does the news presenter really say?
Top answer
Yes, I hear "says" too. Of course, "say" is the correct choice. (presenters .
- Yes, I hear "says" too.
- Of course, "say" is the correct choice.
- (presenters .
- .
- say)
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Yes, I hear "says" too. Of course, "say" is the correct choice. (presenters . . . say)
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khoffOf course, "say" is the correct choice.I heard even in this case the narrator can regard the subject ‘The 2-Day FM radio presenters’ as the singular, that is, she sees the whole presenters as a mass.: I've never found the cases in American news, but I found several ones in UK and Aussie news.
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That doesn't seem very likely to me -- I think it's just that the subject (presenters) was so far away in the sentence from the verb (say) that the announcer forgot whether it was singular or plural.
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