On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>>> Ok, so shouldn't it be
>>>
>>> "The <varname>%_SHARED</varname> variable and other global state(s?)
>>> within the language *are* public data"
>>>
>>> ?
>> It seems correct to me as-is, but I just work here.
>
> Umm, you don't say "Joe and Mary is people." (Or I hope you don't.) So "are"
> looks correct here to me. If the subject of the verb is plural then the verb
> should be in the plural form.
Yeah, you might be right. I won't attempt to explain why I thought
this case might be different from that one...
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