Timeline for Grammatical number of "a specified number of people" [duplicate]
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| Feb 11, 2018 at 18:52 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Aug 15, 2013 at 21:44 | history | closed |
p.s.w.g TrevorD Kris Robusto aedia λ |
Duplicate of A number of questions "has been" or "have been" asked? | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 11:37 | answer | added | Blessed Geek | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 14, 2013 at 23:10 | comment | added | Peter Shor | You're not detecting the number, you're detecting the weak events. So it should be "are". If the sentence were "... until a specified number of weak events is reached", it would be "is", because the number is reached and not the weak events. | |
| Aug 14, 2013 at 22:46 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 14, 2013 at 22:38 | answer | added | Edwin Ashworth | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 14, 2013 at 21:32 | answer | added | David G | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 14, 2013 at 21:25 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 14, 2013 at 21:19 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | Look up notional agreement, notional concord, or synesis. You can do so on this very site, we have lots of previous questions on the subject. See e.g. here. | |
| Aug 14, 2013 at 21:15 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 14, 2013 at 21:08 | history | asked | SSteve | CC BY-SA 3.0 |