Timeline for Count toward our grades or our grade?
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| Aug 21, 2016 at 23:48 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | (The idea that the grade of one out of every five children might be based on something other than coursework is an even more pathological one than mine! :) | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 23:44 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @alephzero: I think what that amounts to is you agree with my proposition that plural subjects such as children or you guys don't sit well with singular grade. There's no evidence that most other people voting here take that line! :( | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 22:37 | comment | added | alephzero | #1 and #3 are somewhere between ambiguous and misleading in British English. The intended meaning probably isn't "four out of every five children receive a grade based on course work, and the other child's grade is based on something else," but that's one way to interpret the sentences. #2 is fine - either you are talking to only one person, or you are talking to a group but the message is for each person individually. #4 should be "80% of each child's grade"... | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 20:10 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Alan: I can understand that the current preponderance of votes for Jim's answer is simply because people aren't thinking things through, but in your case I can only suppose it really is a matter of "dialectal" variance. I'd be interested to know if you could bring yourself to endorse the usage in my example #4 above (I certainly can't). | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 18:59 | comment | added | Alan Carmack | Grade works in my dialect of American English. Although I would say This task counts toward 30 percent of y'all's grade. Y'all is just as plural as you guys. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 18:45 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @J.R.♦: I don't see anything at all tricky here, unless we contemplate the "pathological" case where several classes are in competition with each other (and each class has one single "collective grade" to be compared against that of every other class, as with something like an Olympic team). | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 18:42 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | There's more than one student, but each student only gets one grade. This is tricky. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 18:41 | history | edited | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 21, 2016 at 17:23 | history | answered | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |