New answers tagged subject-verb-agreement
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"Where will She/Sara be tomorrow"? Or "Where will be She/Sara tomorrow"?
Technically, Who will the President be? is slightly ambiguous. It could (and is very much more likely to) mean the same thing as Who will be president? but it also permits the (odd) interpretation, ...
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"Ten minutes is all it takes." — "Ten minutes" is plural, but "is" singular. What if we use "a few"?: "A few minutes is all it takes."
All your a and b examples are correct except 5a and 5b. When you're saying how much of something you have, we don't treat it as a whole, and we use normal singular/plural verb agreement. So they ...
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Another + compound subject + plural or singular verb?
One thing is clear: If we really have a compound subject, then the verb should be plural. The complicating thing is that sometimes two nouns with "and" in the middle are not actually a ...
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