Timeline for Should I use constitute or constitutes here?
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| Nov 5, 2020 at 9:58 | comment | added | anotherdave | @Kevin Catchy! :) Yeah it does read like it looking back, now that you say it. I would avoid these type of wordy titles (unless in some area that requires a level of specificity — e.g. maybe some legal/academic contexts), especially as a ESL learner. Could instead have something like "A resolution passed by the Senate condemning the actions of the Chinese government as genocide" and then use an introductory bit to outline the specifics of what/where/how. Guess this is a point of style not grammar at that stage though, but just to point out that sometimes simpler language is much more readable. | |
| Nov 5, 2020 at 3:42 | comment | added | Kevin | @anotherdave: Re the fragment thing: This looks more like a (long) title than a sentence to me. Titles are frequently noun phrases. | |
| Nov 4, 2020 at 20:45 | answer | added | Michael Hardy | timeline score: -2 | |
| Nov 4, 2020 at 15:24 | comment | added | anotherdave | If this is something you're writing (rather than trying to comprehend), I'd definitely recommend breaking up the sentence into smaller parts. If you do need sub-clauses consider wrapping them (in em-dashes or brackets) for more clarity. It also feels like a bit of a fragment rather than a full sentence at the moment — when you strip away the subclauses and adjectives you basically have "A resolution that the atrocities constitude genocide". Well, what about it? | |
| Nov 4, 2020 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1323958194289414149 | ||
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| Nov 3, 2020 at 22:57 | answer | added | Joshua | timeline score: 48 | |
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| Nov 3, 2020 at 22:35 | history | asked | user124497 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |