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Omar Ahmed Posted 4 years ago
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Cultivating the desert and building new cities ............ national economy.
a. develop b. develops
I go for "b" but my friend says "a" is the correct answer. Is he right?
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Omar Ahmed I go for "b" but my friend says "a" is the correct answer. Is he right? The subject of the sentence is "cultivating", which is singular.
- Omar Ahmed I go for "b" but my friend says "a" is the correct answer.
- Is he right?
- The subject of the sentence is "cultivating", which is singular.
- Use "develops", but also use an article with "economy".
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Omar AhmedI go for "b" but my friend says "a" is the correct answer. Is he right?
The subject of the sentence is "cultivating", which is singular. Use "develops", but also use an article with "economy".
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I agree with you,.
The writer is thinking of cultivating the desert and building new cities as one activity.
You need to say;develops the national economy, not develop national economy.
Clive.
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