GK: ...we'll be back right after this message from P O E M, the Profession of English Majors.
SS: I'm not right for you, Sam. You want to camp in a tent on the Boundary Waters. I despise camping and wilderness. I love Renaissance vocal music, you love country western. We have no favorite TV shows in common. And you're from Wisconsin.
TR: Having different tastes don't mean you can't love someone.
SS: Sam----
TR: What?
SS: Having different tastes DOESN'T mean you can't love someone.
TR: Isn't that what I said?
SS: No, it's not. Listen, Sam. Subjects and verbs have to be in agreement. The subject of that sentence is the gerund "having," which is singular and it takes a singular verb.
TR: Wow. I never knew a woman who talked about grammar before.
SS: You mean, "You've never known a woman before who talked about grammar.
TR: Right. Nobody ever cared enough about me to explain gerunds until you, Sarah.
SS: Gerunds are not unimportant.
TR: Marry me, Sarah. Marrying you would make me the most happy man in the world.
SS: ---- the happiest.
TR: That, too.
GK: Nothing speaks louder than words. And if you care about words, you're always good enough. A message from the Profession Of English Majors.