Only Microsoft

[sylverarrow]

lol

http://www.fthe.net/stuff/microsoft_spell_check.html

[Nebula]

haha..

nice.

coincidentally I ran in to something like this yesterday and shared it with a co-worker. Now, I'm no English major, but I know how to write simple sentences properly. I wrote something like:

"there are two ways you can go about doing this..."

and I noticed the word "are" was underlined. I right clicked out of curiosity

the suggested correction?

"There _is_ two ways you can go about doing this"

....

[JimbobSS]

haha..

nice.

coincidentally I ran in to something like this yesterday and shared it with a co-worker. Now, I'm no English major, but I know how to write simple sentences properly. I wrote something like:

"there are two ways you can go about doing this..."

and I noticed the word "are" was underlined. I right clicked out of curiosity

the suggested correction?

"There _is_ two ways you can go about doing this"

....

must be the ghetto version, trying to correct for the mentally dim.

[Laroacha]

I believe that "There is two ways you could go about this" would be grammatically correct, on the other hand if it said "There am two ways you could go with this", You might have a red flag go up.

[Nebula]

I believe that "There is two ways you could go about this" would be grammatically correct, on the other hand if it said "There am two ways you could go with this", You might have a red flag go up.

wow...

I think you are right. Perhaps the way we speak is incorrect.

After researching subject-verb agreement. I came across an example sentence that was somwhat structured like mine...

(this is a correctly written setnence, BTW)

The group of students is going on a field trip.

...weird.

[HHBizzle]

there is singular?

[Nebula]

there is singular?

I didnt know "students" was singular either? The English language is so funky.

[Phenix]

I didnt know "students" was singular either? The English language is so funky.

students isn't singular, but GROUP is. The subject is the group (of students). SO the group is, not the group are.

"There is" sounds dumb, "there are" sounds correct, but sounding correct, isn't the same as being correct. I would still say "there are".