Cause/causes

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Which one is correct?What usually CAUSE earthquakes are movements of tectonic plates.What usually CAUSES earthquakes are movements of tectonic plates.Thanks.

Cool Breeze · Accepted Answer

What is a singular relative pronoun in your sentence and thus the third person singular verb form causes is correct.

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Nusdunda · Answer

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Cool Breeze · Answer

nusdundaPaste those into MSWord and see which one has been underlined.

I wouldn't recommend MSWord for checking grammar. Bill Gates's grammarians have a rather weak command of English grammar - relative pronouns, for instance.

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Anonymous · Answer

Cool Breeze
nusdundaPaste those into MSWord and see which one has been underlined.

I wouldn't recommend MSWord for checking grammar. Bill Gates's grammarians have a rather weak command of English grammar - relative pronouns, for instance.

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MS Word can do just simple checking; I don't expect it much, it's not perfect than human sense. Some grammar checker program I ever used made non-sense and stupidly kept telling me to change.

I believe that the robot or software can't make masterpiece.

Nusdunda · Answer

Cool Breeze
nusdundaPaste those into MSWord and see which one has been underlined.

I wouldn't recommend MSWord for checking grammar. Bill Gates's grammarians have a rather weak command of English grammar - relative pronouns, for instance.

CB

MS Word can do just simple checking, I don't expect it than human sense. I believe that the robot or software still can't make masterpiece.

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