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To: Rick Julian who wrote (67664)	6/16/2005 11:57:30 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 71178

Can anyone tell me (asap) whether to use "mean" or "means" in the following sentence. "And no rim holes mean easier cleaning and a more attractive rim design." You probably have the answer by now, but the correct answer is means. Why? "no rim holes" is the subject, but it is a singular subject and therefore takes the singular form of the verb, which is means. (Some people think it's confusing that with nouns you put the s ON to make a plural, but with this verb, at least, you take it OFF. But you only have a limited number of s's in circulation, so if you kept putting them onto nouns without getting them from somewhere else, you would run out. The entropy of s.)

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