Date:  Mon, 6 Nov 1995 20:41:12 -0600

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

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



> Thanks, Natalie. Now we have both points of view. But why? It is only

> ONE fiction that is addressed in the rest of the sentence.



But it's one of the fictions that have grown out of the interviewing.



> Syntactically (and, Lord knows, I am no syntactician), it seems to me that

> the PP "of the fictions" modifies "One" which needs the verb "has."



But "that have grown out of the interviewing" goes with "fictions" -- plural.

It's presumably not the only fiction that has grown out of the interviewing.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)