Please identify the subject and verb

0 The sentence needs to be corrected before you ask about identifying the subject and verb. 02br
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00Try this version of the sentence: 02br
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00More than half of all academic problems are caused by a lack of student discipline. 02br
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00Can you now identify the subject and verb? 0-

0 Thanks for the insight. I was aware that the sentence was incorrect; I saw this from a college shared discussion board. My exact question was what is the total subject? Is it more only? I believe the complete subject would be 'more than half of all academic problems'. I was also wondering if more could ever have a singular verb. 02br
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0 Famous line: 02br
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00"Less is more." (Used in promoting minimalist art. And I've heard the rebuttal: "More is more.") 02br
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00You are right on the total subject line. The subject noun would be 'half'. 0-

0 I may be wrong. Let's ask everyone: 02br
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00Does the word 'half' in "half of all problems" take a singular or plural verb? 0-

0 I back off from saying the subject noun is 'half'. Is it 'more'? We need a moderator to jump in now. 0-

0 Your question is quite intriguing. Professsor Okada, a linguist teaching English in a college in Osaka, gives a lecture on this matter. As [url="05000"]the original article[/url] is written in Japanese, I'll summarize it with my poor English writing skill. 02br
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00(Query 24) Why is the verb is not "are" but "is" in the following sentence? 02br
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0 Thank you paco. 02br
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00Though I couldn't remember the rule, the more I thought about how we native English speakers talk, the more I imagined the rule to be in line with the examples you quoted. 02br
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00In the questionner's sentence , as revised above, is the 'part ruling the verb form' also not the subject of the sentence? 02br
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0 Maybe I didn't read your reply carefully enough before I sent my last post. Do I understand your quotation correctly by concluding that the subject-noun of the sentence under discussion in this thread is: 'problems'? Or is it 'half'? 02br
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00Incidentally, #3 is kind of an odd example because 'fewer than two of the students' equals 'one of the students', which concep

0 Hi j-li, 02br
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00I received the answer, courtesy of pieanne from another post, to the question of what is the subject-noun of this sentence: 02br
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00'More than half of all academic problems are caused by the lack of student discipline.' 02br
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00Ths subject-noun is 01b00'problems'02b00. 0-

0 Hello Davkett 02br
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00I think we'd better distinguish a "verb-form controlling noun" from a "syntactic subject". 02br
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00If I parse the given sentence according to the currently dominant grammar, it would be like: 02br
00 (More (than half of all academic problems)) are (caused (by a lack of student discipline)). 02br
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