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To: LachlanMinnesota
I don’t like mixing tenses, either:

“a website”...”their”

maybe “its” would be better

The distinction is whether "website" is being used as a count noun or as a mass noun. I treated it as a count noun, though most, I acknowledge, would treat it as a mass noun.

In either case, however, "website" and "their" are not verbs, and therefore do not have tenses.

p.s. I had to look all that up, so perhaps I was just lucky.

171 posted on 03/22/2014 6:06:42 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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To: Kennard

Well, I guess since we were talking about a singular entry for correction, I guess I wrongly assumed that when you said “a” you were referring to one singular website, and not a subcategory of nouns that would of course make your corrections faultless, while still sounding silly.

If their is correct, then I guess my personal preference would be not to add the “a” to a “count” noun.

My bad.


174 posted on 03/22/2014 6:17:53 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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