[HPforGrownups] Re: Grammar question

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 10303

Susan McGee wrote:

> Okay, now I'm beyond my depth..
>
> I'd say
>
> The Committee grants its permission to build.

British: The Committee grant its permission to build.

> And the Committee puts its (the signatures of its members) on the
> document....

British: And the Committee put its signatures on the document.

Only the second sounds "right" to me, for whatever reason. I read
Watership Down a jillion times at an impressionable age, and Richard
Adams uses what I've identified as British usage, so that's probably why
any of it does.

--Amanda