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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Are or is

Which is correct?

There aren’t/isn’t an unlimited number of candidates to choose from.

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isn't

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There aren’t/isn’t an unlimited number of candidates to choose from.

I'd say it was the plural "aren't".

The noun "number" in this sense is 'number-transparent'. i.e. the number of the whole noun phrase (underlined) for verb-agreement purposes is determined by the number of the noun that is complement to "of" (called the 'oblique'). Since "number" selects only plural

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