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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 ...
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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