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Daro2209 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

invite ? invities

Please correct my sentence....

The management, staff and the students of the school invite / invites you .

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You have a compound subject (management, staff, students), so you need the plural form of the verb (invite). You may be confused by the singular form of school in the prepositional phrase (of the school), but the intervening prepositional phrase has no bearing on the form of the verb.

— Philip

  • You have a compound subject (management, staff, students), so you need the plural form of the verb (invite).
  • You may be confused by the singular form of school in the prepositional phrase (of the school), but the intervening prepositional phrase has no bearing on the form of the verb.
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You have a compound subject (management, staff, students), so you need the plural form of the verb (invite). You may be confused by the singular form of school in the prepositional phrase (of the school), but the intervening prepositional phrase has no bearing on the form of the verb.
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