Plural or singular?
It is important to look at things from ( ).
A) a different point of view.
B) different points of view.
Are both patterns acceptable?
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They are both grammatical. teacherJapan A) a different point of view. I hear a semantic clash, not a grammatical one.
- They are both grammatical.
- teacherJapan A) a different point of view.
- I hear a semantic clash, not a grammatical one.
- "It is important to" sets up an aphorism, but "a different" is too vague for that—only one?
- Which one?
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They are both grammatical.
teacherJapanA) a different point of view.
I hear a semantic clash, not a grammatical one. "It is important to" sets up an aphorism, but "a different" is too vague for that—only one? Which one?
teacherJapanB) different points of view.
Fine.
0teacherJapanIt is important to look at things from ( ).
A) a different point of view.
B) different points of view.
Are both patterns acceptable?
Yes, but they don't entail the same implications.
If a writer says it's important to look at things from a different point of view, it implies that he is going to tell us in the next
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