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Plural possessive with compound subject [duplicate]
Is it "John and Becky's knowledge" or "John's and Becky's knowledge"?
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How to reverse sentence so that their subjects and verbs agree? [closed]
How do you reverse the following sentence so that the subject agree with their verb............?
The president as well as his assistant have declined every comment.
The government’s reason ...
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Subject–verb agreement: “are” versus “is” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Singular or plural following a list
My apples and orange are wrong
What is correct?
Her ripples, her current, her momentum is the fountainhead of science.
Her ...
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Is “things such as this” singular or plural?
Which of the following is correct?
Things such as this make me happy.
Things such as this makes me happy.
Is the subject "things" or "this"?
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“A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst […], keeps asking”
In the last chapter of The Catcher in The Rye:
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here,
keeps asking me if I'm going apply myself when I go back to school
next ...
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Term used for the number of items in a singular or plural noun or sentence
Can anyone confirm the name of the term used
for the number of items in the terms singular,
plural, etc.?
Does singular or plural indicate the cardinality
of a part of the sentence, or is there ...
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How to use Have and Has in these two statements? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is a company always plural, or are small companies singular?
I have two statements like this:
The committee has approved expenditure of hundred crores.
The committee ...
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“Are” vs. “is” with compound subjects
How are the wife and kid?
How is the wife and kid?
Which is more correct?
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Did English ever have a “you” plural?
Outside of the dialectical form used in the Southern US, "y'all," has English ever had a plural "you"? If not, how does English get around using this form?
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Pluralization: backward and backwards in context
Unless I'm using "backward" and "backwards" wrong, I can pluralize it when the subject is not plural and vice versa.
For example, correct me if I'm wrong:
One movie.
If you watch your ...
