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Not happy with "The staff are happy" OR "The staff is happy"
Word 2000 seems to handle it correctly, though.
Considering the other posts in this thread, I think I have to take that back... My test was a simple one, for US English text, and I was happily (?) unaware of the complex reality. :-) -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Stefan Blom" wrote: Word 2000 seems to handle it correctly, though. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Bill Not fixable. It is still present in W2007 too. Staff (and crowd) are collective nouns, so 'the staff is' and 'the crowd is' are both correct. The grammar checker happily accepts 'is or are' with crowd - but with staff, the checker accepts neither as correct. Both the handling of crowd and staff are inconsistent and daft. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "Bill Davy" wrote in message ... In fact, the grammar checker seems to have green twiddlyitis with the following: The staff are happy. "staff are" have twiddles (suggests "staff is" but see below) Staff are happy. "staff are" have twiddles (suggests "Staff is" or "Staffs are" Staff is happy. "Staff" has twiddles (suggests "staffs"). The staff is happy. "Staff" has twiddles (suggests "staffs" but see above). A staff is happy. "A staff" has twiddles (suggests "Staffs") Is it fixable? How? Word 2003 SP2. |
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