•July 14, 2021•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

I don’t mean to sound defensive. In fact, you’ll see me fall on my sword so readily when I do screw up that you probably wonder whether I need a weekly transfusion.
But sometimes I’m just ... right.

Oh, you’re one of them
Reader Jan Gollberg questioned my verb agreement skills in a recent column.
“You wrote, ‘I’m one of those people who love to visit unfamiliar places.’” she wrote. “I think that the verb should be ‘loves,’ not ‘love.’ Why? Shouldn’t the verb in that long subordinate clause agree with ‘one,’ not ‘people’? Here’s a test: Remove the prepositional phrase, and you would say, “I’m one who loves to ...”     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.