Is "Some" singular?

pdh0224 · Post by **pdh0224** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 1:53 am

Dear teacher,

Collaborative history is a wild ride, as the recent presidential election demonstrated. In October readers were editing and re-editing the entries for President Bush and Senator John Kerry at breakneck speed. And some of it wasn't exactly editing. If you clicked on a picture of Bush in his National Guard uniform to get an enlarged version, you would see a picture of Hitler.

Q : I think the bold part is odd. If "it" refers to "the entries" , "some of them were not exactly edited" is correct. when "it" stands for "readers",it is correct that "some of them were not exactly editing."

What do you think?

All the best,

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:35 am

It means that some of the activity was did not constitute real editing.

pdh0224 · Post by **pdh0224** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:09 am

You mean "It means that some of the activity did not constitute real editing.", don't you?

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:25 am

Yes - apologies for the misprint!