Timeline for A case on verbs with plural/singular subject [duplicate]
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| May 21, 2018 at 9:46 | history | closed |
Edwin Ashworth herisson Nigel J Bread J. Taylor |
Duplicate of Flipping Sentences and Verb Agreement | |
| May 19, 2018 at 12:47 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 19, 2018 at 12:40 | comment | added | Median Hilal | Yes, this answer is what I am looking for. Thanks! | |
| May 19, 2018 at 12:34 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Answered at flipping sentences and verb agreement: 'What you are referring to is called subject-complement agreement. When you have a subject and complement that differ in number [ie they would seem to require different verb-forms] [which is not unacceptable per se], the conjugation of the verb is determined by the number of the subject, not the complement.' [@Benjamin Harman] | |
| May 19, 2018 at 12:18 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | In English, verbs agree with their subjects not with their complements. Somewhere we have duplicates on this. | |
| May 19, 2018 at 11:51 | comment | added | Median Hilal | I got your point and edited again. But I think that is not a duplicate. In my case there is an explicit subject, a different analogy from the 'there' case. Isn't it? | |
| May 19, 2018 at 11:44 | history | edited | Median Hilal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 19, 2018 at 11:31 | comment | added | Median Hilal | Honestly, it was hard figuring out the precise tags and title to express the question. | |
| May 19, 2018 at 11:27 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Um... question title and tags as well, I think. However, this is a duplicate. Editing the title and tags might show a related question in the box in the sidebar. | |
| May 19, 2018 at 11:26 | comment | added | Median Hilal | yes, edited the question. | |
| May 19, 2018 at 11:26 | history | edited | Median Hilal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 19, 2018 at 11:22 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Is that not the main verb? | |
| May 19, 2018 at 11:15 | history | asked | Median Hilal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |