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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

What is wrong with this question?

Neither of the kids will do their homework!
  

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The thing that is wrong with this question is that it is not a question. As a statement it's fine. CJ

  • The thing that is wrong with this question is that it is not a question.
  • As a statement it's fine.
  • CJ
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Emotion: tongue tied The thing that is wrong with this question is that it is not a question.

As a statement it's fine.

CJ
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Anonymous Neither of the kids will do their homework!
In my youth, pedants would have insisted on: Neither of the children will do his homework. (If at least one of the children was male, or if the gender of the children was unknown), or Neither of the children would do her homework (if both children were girls).

More recently, pedants p

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