Timeline for One in ten Americans “think” or “thinks”? [duplicate]
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| Nov 26, 2021 at 7:22 | comment | added | BillJ | You've approved a partly wrong answer. There is no 'adjectival phrase in your example. "One in ten" is a determinative phrase determining the nominal, the plural "Americans". | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 13:08 | comment | added | BillJ | @psmears Simple agreement dictates that the verb is plural because the head of the NP is the plural "Americans". However, singular override is possible, presumably due to the presence of singular "one". | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 13:00 | vote | accept | Sazzad Hissain Khan | ||
| Nov 25, 2021 at 12:53 | history | closed |
Peter Shor KillingTime Stuart F |
Duplicate of "1 in 10 are" or "1 in 10 is"? | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 12:26 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 25, 2021 at 11:34 | answer | added | Greybeard | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 11:30 | answer | added | BillJ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 11:24 | comment | added | psmears | This isn't referring to a specific group of 10 Americans, one of whom believes a certain idea: here "1 in 10 Americans" means "10% of all Americans" (roughly 30 million people), hence why the plural form is used. | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 11:17 | history | asked | Sazzad Hissain Khan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |