Timeline for "1 out of 100 chickens is" or "1 out of 100 chickens are"?
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| Mar 4, 2021 at 20:25 | comment | added | Philippe-André Lorin | This answer confuses grammar with maths. | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 12:48 | comment | added | user261030 | Check this headline on the US census bureau website: 'Nearly 1 in 5 People Have a Disability in the U.S., Census Bureau Reports'. It is clearly not one person who has a disability. 'One' represents millions of people so it is perfectly acceptable to use 'have'. | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 10:39 | comment | added | Peter Abolins | How can "one in a hundred..." ever mean anything other than one chicken? It might be a proportional statement, but it still boils down to the word "one" which requires the use of a singular verb, rather than a plural one. | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 8:32 | history | edited | user261030 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2017 at 7:49 | history | edited | user261030 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2017 at 7:44 | history | edited | user261030 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2017 at 7:23 | history | answered | user261030 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |