Proximity Concord

Proximity concord is a grammatical structure in which the verb agrees with the noun or pronoun closest to it. It is also a perfect name for a Hawthorne heroine.

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@popotosoul Same with knees

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@doc_gero It could be that they are idiots. Or it could be that they think their patrons are idiots. Or both. I'm going with both.

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@LadyDemosthenes She was worshipped by the ancient Caananites between 3000 and 1200 BC.

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@BudLightSadness That's the most poetic thing I've heard all day. Reminds me of Byron's She Walks in Beauty Like the Night.

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@LadyDemosthenes I have mild but annoying cataracts so at first I thought I was reading "the planet Kebab."

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@captive_dreamer It's absolutely disgusting. You can't have any kind of palate and tolerate Stevia. I'd rather just drink water.

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@disparutoo @jan_murray The rest is all violins and cocaine.

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@PhysInHistory Plus, he was a dead ringer for Brian May.

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@DailyMail 37

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@Rosie_Gamgee_ I got married in a beautiful Episcopal Church in Cincinnati. Years later I converted to Catholicism. It wasn't very far to go.

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@kimmie_c_ They almost made me want to drink their coffee.

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@nullrespecter @aelfred_D Or as my students put it, "time in memoriam."

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@aelfred_D Reverberating revisioned

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@aelfred_D He was overcome by overcoming.

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@DrDeath1776 Maybe he wanted to grow up to be an art teacher, where you can do that kind of stuff without being reported to the authorities.

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@sakebu_cheese_ Your cursive is beautiful. For dinner last night, I made ahi tuna in a butter sauce (beurre monte) and mediterranean black bean salad.

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@druidian @PhysInHistory Me too, but the markers are always out of ink and somebody has always misplaced or pinched the eraser.

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@PhysInHistory I prefer a whiteboard with markers that work.

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@atensnut 104. Multiplication comes before addition and subtraction regardless of whether there are parens or not.

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@aelfred_D L'enfer, c'est les autres