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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

'Is' or 'Are'?

0 which sentence is correct:02br
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00Is your patients' vision as good as you thought?02br
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0 Are you really talking about many patients, as though their vision is the same? It's an odd construction to start with! 0-

— BarbaraPA

  • 0 Are you really talking about many patients, as though their vision is the same?
  • It's an odd construction to start with!
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0 Are you really talking about many patients, as though their vision is the same? It's an odd construction to start with! 0-
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0 yes... many patients, each with individual vision. But, should "vision" be treated as a singular group? 0-
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0 I think it is just a case of a misplaced apostrophe:02br
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00"01i00Is your patient's vision as good as you thought?"02i00 0-
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10which sentence is correct: Is your patients' vision as good as you thought? Are your patients' vision as good as you thought? Thank you!12blockquote
10The first sentence is correct for multiple patients.02br
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0 thank you, Cool Breeze! 0-
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0When it means "the ability to see", the word 01i00vision02i00 is uncountable and grammatically singular. You can refer to millions of people and their ability to see -- the word would still be the singular, uncountable word "vision".0-
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