Timeline for Is "ones of those" grammatically correct?
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| Jul 26, 2014 at 15:54 | vote | accept | mosceo | ||
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| Jul 26, 2014 at 15:47 | comment | added | CocoPop | @Dangph: Jimsug is right. "Traffic laws," although plural in form, represents a singular class. Therefore "some of those laws" doesn't work because it would ideally refer to a subset of previously mentioned individual components, which isn't the case here. "Traffic laws" is referred to as a whole. | |
| Jul 26, 2014 at 14:50 | comment | added | Dangph | @jimsug, I think that's idiomatic, so long as difficult-to-enforce laws had been mentioned previously, and now we are referring to them as "those laws that are difficult to enforce". | |
| Jul 26, 2014 at 8:10 | comment | added | jimsug | I'm not sure who upvoted this, but this sounds extremely unidiomatic to me - if someone said this to me, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, I would assume that they are a non-native speaker. | |
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| Jul 26, 2014 at 5:03 | history | answered | jtraeger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |