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Guest Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Is this sentence wrong?
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I'm in a class where my teacher believes she is "God." I have no problem with the authority she has over me but sometimes she contradicts herself. For instance, I read her a section of my paper and she said it was correct but when I recieved the paper back she marked it wrong. My teacher said that this sentence didn't make any sense." Traditional authority, rational legal authority, and charasmatic authority is to be believed as the three types of authority developed by Marx Weber." She marked the word "is" as a subject verb agreement. Can someone please tell me if I'm the one that is mistaken?
I'm in a class where my teacher believes she is "God." I have no problem with the authority she has over me but sometimes she contradicts herself. For instance, I read her a section of my paper and she said it was correct but when I recieved the paper back she marked it wrong. My teacher said that this sentence didn't make any sense." Traditional authority, rational legal authority, and charasmatic authority is to be believed as the three types of authority developed by Marx Weber." She marked the word "is" as a subject verb agreement. Can someone please tell me if I'm the one that is mistaken?
Top answer
it must be are instead of " is" cause the subject is plural.
- it must be are instead of " is" cause the subject is plural.
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I'm not sure as to what she meant by 'not making sense', but I can answer the grammatical part.
Since they're three types of authorities, it would be incorrect to place 'is', unless they're meant to be seen as one ('eating and drinking' as food consumption, for example.).
'Is' would be used, too, in a sentence like "A, like B and C, IS bigger than D."
However, 'are'
Since they're three types of authorities, it would be incorrect to place 'is', unless they're meant to be seen as one ('eating and drinking' as food consumption, for example.).
'Is' would be used, too, in a sentence like "A, like B and C, IS bigger than D."
However, 'are'
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GuestTraditional authority,rational legallegal-rational authority, andcharasmaticcharismatic authorityis to be believed asare the three types of authoritydevelopeddescribed
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