Date:  Mon, 6 Nov 1995 23:00:47 EST

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

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



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

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



>"Of the fictions that have grown, one is...." Seems gramatically

>correct to

>me. GWW



Or, preserving the word order of the original,



One [of [THE FICTIONS that HAVE grown out of the constant interviewing of

      Reed and other arbiters of r-w p c]] is ...



If I'm not mistaken, even prescriptivists (at least Safire) argue explicitly

for the logic of the plural in contexts like 'One of the women that work in my

office', etc.



Larry