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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Is or Are

Should it be:

A slew of reforms is needed to launch the economy towards free markets.

Or should it be:

A slew of reforms are needed to launch the economy towards free markets.

I believe it should be the former.

Thanks.
  

Top answer

In my opinion,it better be: A slew of reforms is necessary to launch the economy towards free markets. Sincerely,

— Gigilian Nguyen

  • In my opinion,it better be: A slew of reforms is necessary to launch the economy towards free markets.
  • Sincerely,
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In my opinion,it better be: A slew of reforms is necessary to launch the economy towards free markets.

Sincerely,
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IS is correct.

In your sentence you are referring to "a slew" which refers to a single group of something and thus "is" should be used and not "are".

"A slew of reforms is needed to launch the economy towards free markets" - correct
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IS because "slew" is singular.
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Thanks. A follow-up question is: Does anything change if 'a slew' is changed to 'the slew', as in:

The slew of reforms is/are necessary to launch the economy towards free markets.

Thanks again.
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