[Attempto] playing around with distributives

[Norbert E. Fuchs]

On 11 Sep 2012, at 20:23 , Theodore H. Smith wrote:

> ... It actually reads OK to me "each of the men see the apples.", but on analysing it, actually yes "sees" is the right verb. ...

Formally "each of" requires a singular verb, but informally some people use the plural verb. This is motivated by phrases like "Each of the boys have their own room." instead of the grammatically correct "Each of the boys has his own room."

The ACE parser uses the grammatically correct form, i.e. "each of [plural noun] ... [singular verb form]".

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