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More subject-verb agreement quandaries
Although English-language verbs generally don’t inflect or change in form to agree with the subject in number, they do so in the present tense, third-person singular. In English grammar, in this ...
The time is at hand to tend a few perennials in our garden of prose. Among the hardiest of questions is a poser that ought not to be a poser: Does "none" take a singular or plural verb? The New York ...
Of all the grammar concepts we have, "plural" seems to be one of the most straightforward. You got one thing? It's singular. Got more than one thing? It's plural. But alas, language is always less ...
Some keen-eared Radio National listeners recently took issue with the following sentence, delivered on a book review program: "There's heartbreaking scenes in Murakami's new novel." It's not that the ...
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