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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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“There always come/comes a point”
Which is correct?
There always come a point...
There always comes a point...
Would there be better ways to write this?
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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?
