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Moon7296 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
number agreement
1. While levels of adrenaline and cortisol decrease appetite at first, the effects don't usually last long.
2. Unless you react properly to everyday pressures, your body will release too much adrenaline and cortisol, which decreases your capacity to learn.
Q) I was wondering why "adrenaline and cortisol" in #2 is treated as a singular unit(... adrenaline and cortisol, which DECREASES....) when it is treated as a plural unit in #1(... adrenaline and cortisol "DECREASE"....).
2. Unless you react properly to everyday pressures, your body will release too much adrenaline and cortisol, which decreases your capacity to learn.
Q) I was wondering why "adrenaline and cortisol" in #2 is treated as a singular unit(... adrenaline and cortisol, which DECREASES....) when it is treated as a plural unit in #1(... adrenaline and cortisol "DECREASE"....).
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That's because 'adrenaline and cortisol' is not really the subject of 'decreases' in (2). It's implicitly the release of those compounds that decreases the capacity to learn. Paraphrase: ...
- That's because 'adrenaline and cortisol' is not really the subject of 'decreases' in (2).
- It's implicitly the release of those compounds that decreases the capacity to learn.
- Paraphrase: ...
- your body will release too much adrenaline and cortisol, and such an excessive release of these substances decreases your capacity to learn.
- CJ
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That's because 'adrenaline and cortisol' is not really the subject of 'decreases' in (2). It's implicitly the release of those compounds that decreases the capacity to learn.
Paraphrase:
... your body will release too much adrenaline and cortisol, and such an excessive release of these substances decreases your capacity to learn.
CJ
Paraphrase:
... your body will release too much adrenaline and cortisol, and such an excessive release of these substances decreases your capacity to learn.
CJ
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