If you or your child, advisee, or student uses Naviance to guide the college application process, you may find this thread worth reading.https://twitter.com/camulhern/status/1116391143145639938 …
Oops. A correction is, alas, necessary here, because of the initial noun in the string, namely, "you." This noun of course requires the second-person form of the verb. So the string of nouns is inhomogeneous, which means that no single verb form can follow the string.
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And I am left wondering what the final verdict is: use or uses? cc
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As a practical matter, the principal question is: how many readers will notice the issue, and be distracted by it? Grammar does have a logical structure, but native speakers of a language have seldom felt bound by it; what tends to matter is what one can get away with.
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In a case like this, grammatical correctness mandates a formulation of the kind: "If you use, or (if) anyone you know uses..." But this, alas, is awkward, and argues in favor of a reformulation of the statement that obviates such intricacies.
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The simplest alternative formulation is probably: "Those who use Naviance..."
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Maybe this is why I was so confused.
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