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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Help with sentences

  1. Writing obituaries is/are hardly every teenager’s dream.
  2. Helping the poor is/are the Christian thing to do, according to the Christians.
  3. Cruelty to animals is/are widespread in those countries.

These three sentences have been bugging me, as I do not know whether it should be is or are.

Can somebody help and explain why it should be either is or are?


Thanks beforehand!

  

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park gray 258 Writing obituaries is /are hardly every teenager’s dream. park gray 258 Helping the poor is /are the Christian thing to do, according to the Christians. park gray 258 Cruelty to animals is /are widespread in those countries.

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  • park gray 258 Writing obituaries is /are hardly every teenager’s dream.
  • park gray 258 Helping the poor is /are the Christian thing to do, according to the Christians.
  • park gray 258 Cruelty to animals is /are widespread in those countries.
  • In sentence #1, for instance, it is "writing" (not "obituaries") that is the dream.
  • The same explanation applies to the other two.
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park gray 258Writing obituaries is /are hardly every teenager’s dream.
park gray 258Helping the poor is /are the Christian thing to do, according to the Christians.
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