Timeline for "the majority of" vs. "a majority of"
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| Mar 1, 2023 at 18:15 | comment | added | Lambie | The majority of men at my university: specific. The other is general. It is always, always the same thing: the is specific, a is not. | |
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| Sep 30, 2022 at 18:24 | answer | added | Ray Butterworth | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 29, 2022 at 16:17 | comment | added | MarcInManhattan | "I am using a singular verb in the first example, and a plural verb in the second example, because this seems to be the rule" <-- This is not a rule. In general, notional agreement has nothing to do with "a" vs. "the". | |
| Sep 29, 2022 at 16:04 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | I find the version with the singular verb decidedly odd. | |
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