Wednesday, July 02, 2008

This Is Why I'm Hot: Reason #273

...Because I'm anal about grammar.

I've talked about the awesome Grammar Girl podcast - a true sign I am a) extreme wordsmith and b) extreme dork.

Today I ask the Peanut Gallery to consider two problems.


1) Which is correct:

Each of us has

Each of us have


2) Is there an easy rule to help me determine when I should write

July 13th

as opposed to

July 13


Any contributions, suggestions or reference sites are welcome (including from my honorary editor, Double Platinum).

2 comments:

WestEnder said...

My understanding is that "each" is singular so it goes with "has."

Don't know about the date.

Becky said...

According to my BFF, the AP Stylebook, "each" takes a singular verb (has); and dates should always just be the number (13)...

Whee!