Jerry Friedman wrote: > > --- J C <greyw01f at hotmail.com> wrote: [snip] > > So what's the correct way of saying this? > > > > What universities am I applying to? > > What universities are you applying to? > > What universities are we applying to? > > What universities are they appyling to? > > What universities am he applying to???? heheheheeh I hate english. > > "What universities is he applying to?" Because you say "He *is* > applying to five universities." The tendency to make a verb agree > with the previous noun has been called "attraction", and a lot of > people do it, but it's not part of standard English. > > Jerry Friedman Another way to arrange the question might make it clearer. To which universities is he applying? To which universities am I applying? etc. Which just goes to show you that your English teacher who railed against dangling prepositions was really trying to help you. Casey