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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Check SVA please
Which sentence is correct?
1. Each student and each guardian talks seriously on the issue.
2. Each student and each guardian talk seriously on the issue.
1. Each student and each guardian talks seriously on the issue.
2. Each student and each guardian talk seriously on the issue.
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Anonymous Which sentence is correct? 1. Each student and each guardian talks seriously on the issue.
- Anonymous Which sentence is correct?
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- Each student and each guardian talks seriously on the issue.
- The usage with 'each' and 'every' is an exception to the usual compound-subject verb-agreement rule.
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AnonymousWhich sentence is correct?1. Each student and each guardian talks seriously on the issue.
The usage with 'each' and 'every' is an exception to the usual compound-subject verb-agreement rule.
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Thanks, Mister Micawber.
Just got into this explanation from Fowler's Modern English Usage.
Just got into this explanation from Fowler's Modern English Usage.
However, it was also stated there that the matte
More complex uses of every are often felt to require a plural verb and/or a plural anaphoric pronoun: every phase, every line and every stanza are indissolubly welded—M. Gullan, 1937 (WDEU)
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It's good to see that Fowler, that ancient prescriptionist, still agrees with modern English practice sometimes.
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