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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Is or Are
Which of these statements is the more gramatically correct; "The British Isles is a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe", or "The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe"?
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They are equally correct; it depends on the speaker's conception: a single archipelago or a number of individual islands.
- They are equally correct; it depends on the speaker's conception: a single archipelago or a number of individual islands.
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They are equally correct; it depends on the speaker's conception: a single archipelago or a number of individual islands.
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