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What's "A Slave" in "12 Years A Slave"?
A grammatical analysis of the title for the movie "12 Years A Slave" has baffled me. Particularly the fact that possibly some kind of inversion (A Slave for 12 Years ⟶ 12 Years A Slave) has taken ...
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"To Be" conjugation with Inversions?
Looking at the TV was/were John and Jane.
Should "to be" be conjugated in the singular or plural form? My first thought was that it should agree with Looking at the TV; after all it comes ...
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