(07-01-2013, 10:57 AM)Publius link Wrote:[quote author=Yvonne link=topic=6741.msg63881#msg63881 date=1372699060]
Quote:They're a prestigious academic institution---the Harvard of the West.
I'm sorry. Stanford is not the Harvard of the West. Stanford is Stanford. Maybe if Harvard had a better engineering program and BCS-bowl winning football program. Then again they do have a MBB team that makes the Tournament.
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And Stanford is not a "they"; the university is a singular entity and takes the pronoun "it" in this type of sentence.
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