Grammar pedants - help please.

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Hendo Sep 2007 9:28am, 25 Sep 2007 10,259 posts	0 Hendo That's because the subject of that sentence is the "us", not the company, FD. Hence HAVE.
Fat Dave Sep 2007 9:57am, 25 Sep 2007 1,077 posts	0 Fat Dave Well, obviously. It was an example. (A bad one). But you could get away with "Jones' Carpets are buying the sandwiches" in, say, an email. In this context "Jones' Carpets is buying the sandwiches" would technically be correct (because you're referring to the company, not the actual carpets, of course) - but in an informal setting you could sacrifice the technical accuracy in order to sound less weird.
Hendo Sep 2007 9:59am, 25 Sep 2007 10,262 posts	0 Hendo Agree with that. Have issues all the time when reviewing letters at work when referring to the Inland Revenue as "they" and "are".
Maclennane Sep 2007 10:03am, 25 Sep 2007 4,783 posts	0 Maclennane You can have definitely correct or definitely incorrect grammar. Jones' Carpets cannot buy sandwiches, unless they are a newly discovered sapient form of floor covering. Mandy from Jones' Capets can buy the sandwiches, or Jones Sandwiches Ltd can be picking up the tab in which case Jones' Carpets is a single entity. So there.
Hendo Sep 2007 10:06am, 25 Sep 2007 10,264 posts	0 Hendo True Mac, but when spoken in the vernacular....
Maclennane Sep 2007 10:09am, 25 Sep 2007 4,784 posts	0 Maclennane vernacular schmernacular. Laziness and inexactitude!
TRO Saracen Sep 2007 10:14am, 25 Sep 2007 464 posts	0 TRO Saracen What is the plural of 'status'
Hoaxster Sep 2007 10:15am, 25 Sep 2007 9,913 posts	0 Hoaxster question mark
Huge Sep 2007 10:16am, 25 Sep 2007 1,572 posts	0 Huge Indeed!
Huge Sep 2007 10:19am, 25 Sep 2007 1,573 posts	0 Huge You can have status or statuses, I think