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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

A thousands-fold flock of Common Grackle soundtrack

Hello,

I believe that the verb "soundtrack" should not be considered as plural in the bellow sentence as "A flock" is singular, so the subject does not agree with the verb. what do you think?


The original version:

A thousands-fold migratory flock of Common Grackle soundtrack a firewood crevasse sunset.

My Version:

A thousands-fold migratory flock of Common Grackle soundtracks a firewood crevasse sunset.

  

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anonymous what do you think? I think you should have capitalized "what". This is creative writing.

  • anonymous what do you think?
  • I think you should have capitalized "what".
  • This is creative writing.
  • The normal rules do not apply.
  • You can construe "flock" as singular or plural to conform to your vision for it.
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anonymouswhat do you think?

I think you should have capitalized "what".

This is creative writing. The normal rules do not apply. You can construe "flock" as singular or plural to conform to your vision for it. This is commonly done anyway for collective nouns. I like plural, "a flock of Common Grackle soundtrack a firewood

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Where did you get that? It is not good English and has many mistakes.


Soundtrack is a noun, not a verb. The preceding phrase seems to be an attempt to describe what is on the soundtrack.

Thousand should be singular. The word is not hyphenated. e.g. twofold, hundredfold, and thousandfold. The word is used in a comparative, so it needs something to be compared w

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