Timeline for "That" instead of "those"
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| May 4, 2020 at 16:53 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| May 4, 2020 at 16:53 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| May 1, 2020 at 18:22 | comment | added | joseph_morris | Eventually everything can just be a matter of style and not grammar, depending on how you define "style" and "grammar". However, the point remains that it is not culturally common to use "effectiveness and efficiency" as a singular noun, in a way that it is with "fish and chips" and "drinking and driving". I'm also not sure that I would agree that the point of all textual interpretation is "the point of the author". That might be so with some schools of thought on poetry and literature, but for corporate communications like this typically what is "correct" is what's common in the culture. | |
| Apr 30, 2020 at 15:31 | comment | added | English--more exc than laws | Just remove "that or those" and it will still make sense. It automatically gets co-related. | |
| Nov 3, 2019 at 20:04 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
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| Aug 25, 2019 at 21:00 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | @JanusBahsJacquet Efficiency and effectiveness is a good technique to be employed by any employee. It can sound wrong to you (or anyone) but the point is the intent of the author. Should the singular be used? That's a different question, and one of style, not of grammar. I can come up with a large number of example of compounds that are treated in different ways. | |
| Aug 25, 2019 at 19:30 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Can efficiency and effectiveness really work as a compound concept, though? In theory, you’re right, but does it work in practice here? I suppose the two words are close enough to being synonyms that they may be used here as a sort of hendiadys to refer to the concept, but even so, the singular form sounds off to me. | |
| Aug 25, 2019 at 6:07 | history | answered | Jason Bassford | CC BY-SA 4.0 |