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Begae Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Is or are?

the sentence goes like this "below are the flows of the events or below are the flows of the event?".Emotion: smile
  

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I'd use the plural. Otherwise, what's to flow? " Are we thinking "technology" here - that is, flow charts?

— Avangi

  • I'd use the plural.
  • Otherwise, what's to flow?
  • " Are we thinking "technology" here - that is, flow charts?
  • " Otherwise, perhaps, "below is a description of the sequence of events, or the way in which the events flow," or something like that.
  • "Below are the flows of the events" is not something a native speaker would say.
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I'd use the plural. Otherwise, what's to flow? "Flow" implies some kind of sequence, so it would probably be a series of events - unless you're thinking of an event which has "within it" several "mini-events."

Are we thinking "technology" here - that is, flow charts? If so, it would be more natural to say "below are are flow charts of the events."

Otherwise, perhaps
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