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Originally Posted by Chris
Conversationally, you often hear corporate entities referred to as plural, but the correct usage is singular. A corporate entity is a singular thing, even if it comprises more than one person.
The petitioner has set out text which he intended to be taken as a formal proposition (the resignation of the PM and his Chancellor) and his sentence construction attempts to reflect that formal tone. Under those circumstances, especially as he complains about having his intelligence insulted, correct spelling and grammar shouldn't be too much to ask.
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Off topic comments removed. Please don't try to play the rules, it won't end well.
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Contextually when referring directly to specific people within the entity which he does, naming two also referring to the cabinet office and expanding to the entire coalition the plural usage would be absolutely correct, the rest of the government are not mentioned.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
'Some'?
Over 63 million haven't signed it - once again, you and reality are non-contiguous Venn Diagram circles...  |
25 million did not vote at the last election, we are still being subjected to the dictatorial minority that voted for the conservatives and lib dems
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Originally Posted by Gary L
Can we do Osborne for stirring 'racial' hatred?
it's not racial, but the same crime.
sickening how he's using Philpott as a way of getting people to turn against welfare claimants.
he doesn't realise it but the prat is disrespecting the dead 6 kids too.
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Wow.
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Seems pretty clear to me the reporters question and Osborne's response was already rehearsed, as in Osborne hands a reporter the questions he will answer and the reporter asks them, Osborne has already rehearsed his responses, reporters who get creative usually end up with deviated and meaningless response. Most fall for the nonsense, whether it be a negative or positive reaction is not his concern, as long as the majority believe his response was off the cuff from a question he was not expecting the desired effect has been obtained. Politics is more about showmanship than anything else. The rest of us are just a paranoid psychotic minority who can be easily disregarded, as you can see my beliefs are well systematized.