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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (1112)4/11/1998 7:11:00 AM
From: Sowbug  Read Replies (3) of 4710
 
Two queries for the thread:

1. "On the one hand, blah blah. On the other hand, blah blah." I've always said, "On one hand, blah blah. On the other hand, blah blah." Don't people usually say "one and the other," not "the one and the other"?

2. "He and only he is in the room." Grammatically, it should be "are," but that's obviously wrong. "And only he" is almost like a single package that is meant to be an emphatic expression, not part of a compound subject. Is there a term for these kind of grammatic-semantic conflicts, or do the experts (whoever they are) have some way of reconciling them?
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