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[misslissa]

Jake,

I am in the process of writing an email to some people outside my company. Its important that my grammar is correct since i dont want to seem like a fool.
Outlook keeps correcting the following sentence and i dont think it needs to be. Am i wrong or is outlook?

My entry:
But equally important to note is since there are telephone numbers listed in the PAO graphic, I was instructed to localize the slogan line, which satisfies our business rules to:

Outlook wants:
But equally important to note is since there is telephone numbers listed in the PAO graphic, I was instructed to localize the slogan line, which satisfies our business rules to:

[misslissa]

btw - i sent it with my entry. regardless if its wrong.... it just feels so right



 

[Jakestaby]

It's wrong.  I'll explain it to you sometime.

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My entry:
But equally important to note is since there are telephone numbers listed in the PAO graphic, I was instructed to localize the slogan line, which satisfies our business rules to:

Correct way:
But equally important to note is that since there are telephone numbers listed in the PAO graphic, I was instructed to localize the slogan line, which satisfies our business rules to:

I think this is why it wanted another is.

[misslissa]

It's wrong.  I'll explain it to you sometime.

tell me now. cause i dont like to wait.



lv. i didnt want to do 'that since there'
it sounds cheap to me ... and if it wanted that wouldnt it have come up as a fragmented sentence?

[||LV//]

word says that I am right, and it sounds right to me.

[misslissa]

i already know its wrong cause jake said it was wrong.

...but i dont agree with you're reasoning as to why its wrong.     (ya. i rolled my eyes)

[Latro]

Jake is just giving you shit because you already sent it. :-p

[Mongoose]

I am neither an English scholar nor a Staby, however I think it may be that outlook noticed that telephone was single and thus tried to tell you to use is and not are.  Just my guess.

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[misslissa]

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now thats just crazy talk!

I am neither an English scholar nor a Staby, however I think it may be that outlook noticed that telephone was single and thus tried to tell you to use is and not are.  Just my guess.

and so is that! its not telephones numbers
thats why i dont understand.

[Mongoose]

its not telephones numbers
thats why i dont understand.

Indeed it isn't but I have never put much stock in grammar check.  The grammar check seeing your verb "is" probably looked for the corresponding noun which is usually the next noun in the sentence.  It's dictionary told it that the word telephone is a noun, but you were using telephone to describe the actual noun "numbers."  Either I or grammar check suck at checking grammar and seeing as grammar check was made by professionals it is probably myself.

[Labyrinthine]

Well, here's how I'd revise it.

However, it is equally important to note that there are telephone numbers listed in the PAO graphic. Because of this, I was instructed to localize the slogan line, which satisfies our business rules to:

In this case, the "are" is correct because it is modifying a plural noun, "telephone numbers."

[misslissa]

<3
im so over this topic.

[Jakestaby]

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