Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 21:05:26 -0500

From: "Bethany Dumas, UTK" DUMASB[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTKVX.BITNET

Subject: "One of the x that has/have"?



I don't want to do the work I am supposed to do tonight, so instead I shall

pose a query that arose in my mind as I sat reading the 11/13 New Yorker

(instead of doing the work I do not want to do tonight).



In a squib on Colin Powell (p. 35), this sentence occurs:



"One of the fictions that have grown out of the constant interviewing

of Reed and other arbiters of right-wing political correctness is

that Amerians vote for a Presidential candidate mainly because of where

he stands on certain clearly defined isues."



It seems to me that the semantic sense of the sentence calls for a

"One of the fictions that has" construction. If a student handed me that

sentence, I am certain I would mark it and have a little talk with her about

her soul.



How about it? Is the NYorker slipping? Or am I?



Bethany Dumas

dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]utk.edu