Total Nerd

I am such a nerd that Friday night I started reading Strunk and White's The Elements of Style again. I think I need to brush up on my grammar; I feel it slipping away. For example, I had no idea that when using "one of..." as the subject, the verb is written in plural. Who knew that the sentence is "one of the girls will have to wear red" and not, "one of the girls has to wear red?"

I felt the need to remind myself of the basics when I saw a flyer at Hunter reading:

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And then, farther down the page, is the sentence: Hunter College English graduate with honors and prize-winning writer.

I promise, I do not make these things up. As a matter of fact, I don't even know how to make stuff like this up!