[CrackMonkey] RSA patent expiration party

Monkey Master monkeymaster at crackmonkey.org
Tue Aug 8 14:15:50 PDT 2000


begin  Michael Jennings quotation:
> > > > >   Are you one of the few that has never read Seth's web pages?
> > 	If you're referring to a "few", then shouldb't the verb be
> > "have" instead of "has"?
> 
> Yes.  But he's not.  Note the subject of the sentence is "one," not
> "few."  "Few" is the object of the preposition "of."  Take out the
> prepositional phrase, and you get "are you one who has never read
> Seth's web pages," which is correct.

	Nono.  He's saying:

	Are you one of the <group>?

	Where <group> is "the few who have never read Seth's web
pages".

	He's not asking if I'm the one who has never read the pages,
he's asking if I'm in this group.

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