Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site spuxll.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!whuxle!spuxll!npl From: npl@spuxll.UUCP (Nick Landsberg) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: RE: Grammar Quiz Message-ID: <502@spuxll.UUCP> Date: Sun, 24-Jun-84 00:47:34 EDT Article-I.D.: spuxll.502 Posted: Sun Jun 24 00:47:34 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 08:34:53 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems, South Plainfield NJ Lines: 21 [sacrificing one goat on the altar of long dead bugs ] I am confused! Did all the team members get put in one cell when they went to jail or did each one get put into a separate cell? (excessive use of pronouns, while accepted in the vernacular, leads to sometimes glaring inconsistencies when analyzed from the standpoint of strictly proper grammar. The two sentences presented are not really correct, although most of us would accept them, at least in verbal communications. When in doubt, rephrase. e.g. "Yesterday, the team won its first game. Afterwards, the team members went out to celebrate." Damon Runyon :-) . :w