--- Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote: > > 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. Seconded. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250