Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Which is correct?
Those people are the exception that proves the rule/Those people are the exceptions that prove the rule?
Top answer
Anonymous Those people are the exception that proves the rule. I would use this one. The idiom has the singular "exception".
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AnonymousThose people are the exception that proves the rule.I would use this one. The idiom has the singular "exception". I'd stick with that.
CJ
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