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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, for sure.

A phone typo immediately let's you know that person doesn't know grammar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Whilst usually I would agree if you are attempting to be a pedant about grammar you should probably use correct grammar......

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Not really being a pedant.

Someone corrected me, and I clarified that whether it's singular or plural is kind of ambiguous which make both correct.

Because like I said, English is stupid. And even native speakers who follow all of its rules can't explain them.

Think about that for a second, we all get over a decade of learning the language, and we're mostly going off gut feeling when we use it. We may know a few rules, but not all the excepttions and rare cases the rule is wrong.

Since someone cared enough to point out the general rule, I explained the rare exception. Because I thought they'd care.