SP TIMES EDITORIAL WRITERS COMMIT SUBJECT-VERB FELONY

SP TIMES Editors:

My husband and I disagreed on your editorial since he favors Hillary and I Obama. That you made none of your customary comma errors quite beguiled me in addition to your recommending my choice for president.

You, however, made one error that is rather more sophisticated than your usual comma errors. Here it is: “What separates these two candidates are not the issues.”

Your subject is the single noun clause “What separates these two candidates.” Your verb should be “is,” not “are.” One makes the verb agree with the subject, not with the predicate nominative “issues.”

Lee Drury De Cesare