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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 2043
Message ID: 12
#12, RE: The Bad Bank Caper
Posted by Gryphon on Jan-04-10 at 00:55 AM
In response to message #11
>"(No, it's supposed to be like that,)" Lain replied. "(This
>model
all do that.
>
>"These models," perhaps?

Nope, that would imply more than one model is involved, which isn't the case - it's all the examples of a single model. It's not an intuitive construction, since it refers to a singular group and its multiple individual members collectively at the same time, but that is actually the way it should be written. Companies are sometimes referred to in the same way (e.g. "Ford make the Taurus"); it's just one of those weird things about English.

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