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This tag applies to questions that deal with grammatical number: “singular” versus “plural”, and (rarely) also “dual”.
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plural form or singular form after a subject clause
SEE: http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/SubjectVerb.html "When a Linking Verb is Used."
What matters is people; but people are what matters.
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Accepted
"Is" or "are" in: "Where both X and Y [is/are] ..."?
"where both mean and variance are normalized"
If you say that two things are normalized, you could say that they are (3rd person plural) normalized.
If you are using "mean and variance" as a single …
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Possessive for Mothers' Day
Regardless of the original intention of the creator and founder of Mother's/Mothers/Mothers'Day, the punctuation presently varies in use.
[I, personally, prefer the apostrophe after the "s", as I t …