Timeline for Verb when citing statistics ex. "one in nine Americans (work or works) in sales"
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| Aug 17, 2015 at 4:41 | vote | accept | Alex | ||
| Jul 30, 2015 at 12:44 | comment | added | TimR | And how about 1.75 in 10 Americans? You'll notice the denominator changes to avoid fractions and plurals, thus making the singular a clear choice. Rather than saying 2 in 10 one would typically say 1 in 5. But there are no "rules" here that are not routinely broken. | |
| Jul 30, 2015 at 7:39 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | Possible duplicate of '1 out of 100 chickens is' or '1 out of 100 chickens are'? | |
| Jul 30, 2015 at 7:21 | answer | added | chasly - supports Monica | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 30, 2015 at 6:47 | history | asked | Alex | CC BY-SA 3.0 |