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To: Rambi who wrote (67673)	6/16/2005 5:26:48 PM
From: Rick Julian	Respond to of 71178

I mean You mean They mean We mean Having no dogs means no hair clouds in the corners of your rooms. Having no dogs mean no hair clouds in the corners of your rooms. If this sentence is analogous, then it's means, eh?

To: Rambi who wrote (67673)	6/16/2005 5:26:48 PM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I mean You mean They mean We mean Having no dogs means no hair clouds in the corners of your rooms. Having no dogs mean no hair clouds in the corners of your rooms. If this sentence is analogous, then it's means, eh?

To: Rambi who wrote (67673)	6/16/2005 5:29:02 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Fowler didn't help, but I found this in my old Harbrace- which might be what I was thinking of... (or should I say " might be that of which I was thinking") When regarded as a unit, collective nouns as well as noun phrases denoting quantity, take singular verbs "A thousand bushels IS a good yield" SO if you are thinking of NO HOLES as a collective descriptive unit -- I would go with the singular. But I am not an English teacher!