Re: Dorky grammar question * just in case...

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

I wouldn't use either one.  It would be "a set of dishes with 
flowers around  their rims," because multiple dishes could 
not be described as having a single rim, but that's an entirely 
different argument.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com>

> Just in case you're still wondering whether it would be grammatically 
> correct to write "a set of rules that define" consider this:
> 
> Is it
> 
>    "a set of dishes that *has* flowers around the rim"
> 
> or
> 
>    "a set of dishes that *have* flowers around the rim"?





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