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Old Wed Oct 19, 2005, 09:26am
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Re: Re: Re: have to agree

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Originally posted by M&M Guy

Why wouldn't it apply to one opponent? I'm not saying this to be argumentative (this time), but isn't the wording "opponents" just to let you know it can include more than one, instead of excluding only one?
Maybe. But in other situations where the word can be either singular or plural, they've used the form "opponent or opponents" or the form "opponent(s)."

See 8-2 and 8-3 for examples.

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