More about whether WHO is SINGULAR or PLURAL

Dear all,

Thank you for your interesting comments. Don't be misguided: according to grammatical rules, WHO is in fact to be followed by a verb in SINGULAR! Even if Sylvia Chalker FEELS there would be some justification for using it with PLURAL verbs, because LOGIC seems to dictate it, this has not changed the existing rule (yet)!

She has good reasons, as you have seen, but she did not create a new grammar rule.

Here is the original article by Geoffrey Leech (just one page) that Sylvia Chalker was so upset about.