Monday, February 2, 2009

their losing streak now extend to eight straight games

-- "Canucks falter again" in Vancouver 24 hours on February 2, 2009

To make the subject and verb agree, extend needs an s. If they weren't "straight games", it wouldn't be a streak would it? The sentence would read better, and be more efficient, without straight. But then, 24 hours is built on filler, isn't it? It's possible that the writing is intentionally sloppy to match the Canucks' sloppy play of late.

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