Bad Grammar in a Headline
rogersgeorge on January 8th, 2017
From Engadget, which generally gets things right. The headline is in their newsletter. If you go to the site, they have it correct.
Intel’s next generation of PC chips are here
Do you see the goof? What’s the subject of the sentence? Is it singular or plural? Now look at the verb; singular or plural?
This mistake appears a lot in amateur writing, when the plural object of a preposition is right next to the verb, and the subject, a singular, is farther away. Don’t let that proximity fool you!
(The answers, in case you didn’t get it: the subject is “generation,” a singular. The verb is “are,” a plural! It was attracted to all those chips. Guess you can’t eat just one, eh?)
Leave a Reply